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KEEGAN: The Opposite of Loneliness
A crowded world thinks that aloneness is always loneliness and that to seek it is perversion. —JOHN GRAVES
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
To end loneliness, you need other people—plus something else. You also need, he explained to me, to feel you are sharing something with the other person, or the group, that is meaningful to both of you. You have to be in it together—and “it” can be anything that you both think has meaning and value.
Johann Hari • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
Everywhere we go these days, there is talk about community - the developer SaaS tool, the soap brand, and virtually every product I interact with now prominently bears a Community link on their homepage. Personally, I don’t need more Slack groups or things to which I belong. What I want is deeper relationships with specific people where I can be mo... See more
Sari Azout • #58 friends > communities
But the legacy of Romanticism has been an epidemic of loneliness, as we are repeatedly brought up against the truth: the radical inability of any one other person to wholly grasp who we truly are. Yet there remains, besides the promises of love and religion, one other – and more solid – resource with which to address our loneliness: culture.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
