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Carl Jung once wrote that life only becomes whole when we accept death as part of it. At first, that can sound dark and cold, but the truth underneath is deeply human and quietly liberating.
If we lived forever, we might never fully live.
We might postpone, avoid, numb, and never commit. We might skim the surfa...
Loneliness is an existential risk.
There is a reason we don’t think about loneliness when things are good. When we’re generally happy, we have the energy and reserves to do the things we want and need to do. Work. Exercise. Prepare healthy food. Read. Create. When we are content, our inner voices are engaged with contented things. Busy and eng...
Nobody loses herself all
at once.
It's stealthy.
It spreads itself out to
blend in. Slip by.
You don't realize
you should be mourning.
You go on.
You do,
while pain puddles in shadows.
It's life.
It waits.
Late nights it's a moth. Or imagined?
Batted away, it talks to your dreams.
Daylight scatters it,
until it doesn't.
At the end of the day, we all have to fight our demons alone. And I think that's the source of loneliness. If you spend your whole life insisting there are no demons to fight or hiding your demons or determined to fight them in private, you end up without anyone having your back. The people who aren't lonely have a cheer squad who love them, demons and all.
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