Loneliness
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Loneliness
F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that part of the beauty of all literature is “You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
Brian Collins • Into the Mind of Designer & Co-Founder Brian Collins - Mymind
The Lonely Chapter:
“A period in everybody’s journey where they are so different because they’ve started to do new things that they no longer fit in with that old set of friends. But they’re not sufficiently developed that they’ve gained their new set of friends.”
– Chris Williamson
Removing the Armor Between Us - Healing Yourself Amidst Crisis and Grief | Max Strom | TEDxCapeMay
youtube.comAny form of abandonment in the name of privacy is a weak manifestation of human bond.
Our culture knows how to do CPR, but it is lost on how to mend a broken heart.
Grief should not be suppressed.
Grief-as-a-service?
We don’t know how to ask nor accept help.
Fear of being a burden is a silent killer.
Looking after those we love is an honor.
Mark Schaefer - Belonging to The Brand
youtube.com“The point of books is to combat loneliness” — David Foster Wallace
The Community Community
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The difference with a concrete community of moral calling is that it, at the very least, forces us out of our own individuality in order to learn how to reckon with others. At its best, it calls us to be better than we are.
Understanding this distinction helps us recognize that self-acceptance, self-worth, and the common good depend not on indulging our proclivities or tastes but on growing together with our neighbours into better people.
“Everyone wants to attend parties, but no one wants to throw them. We just expect them to appear when we need them, like fire trucks. My point is that we are obligated to create the social world we want. Intimacy, togetherness—the opposite of the crushing loneliness so many people seem to feel—are what parties alchemize.” As someone who tends to
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