Loneliness
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Loneliness
“The point of books is to combat loneliness” — David Foster Wallace
“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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“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
Vonnegut: “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
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.
I spent like all of my 20s obsessed with trying to fix the loneliness problem - hosted tons of events, tried starting a company around it, etc.
Main two takeaways
1) The fact that you can stay home and basically self-medicate with content in a way that feels not-quite-bored is the biggest... See more
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Brian Chesky on loneliness