everyone’s lonely
How is it that so many people can feel so alone all at once and all in the same place? Weird, huh? Has it always been like this?
I think loneliness is really more like fear disguised as melancholy… fear of reaching out, fear of rejection, fear of who knows what… I think sometimes there doesn’t really have to be something to be afraid of for fear to exist. Sometimes it’s just fear. And so, sometimes it’s just loneliness.
Category: just wondering, what's inside 3 comments »
June 13th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Kelly, if you’re lonely in Utah feel free to visit me in California.
Or even if you’re not lonely you can come visit me in California!
June 15th, 2009 at 6:09 am
I think it’s the other way around: fear comes from loneliness. DFW used to say that the human experience is to be imperially alone, stuck in your own skull-sized kingdom. B/c no matter how much empathy you have, you can’t actually escape that place that is you. Which is where alone comes from. And fear is, I think, one of the ways we express that.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
DFW = Dallas/Fort Worth airport?