Saturday, September 26, 2009

On Loneliness

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
- John le Carre

Sometimes we can feel so a part of the world, so social, so alive and connected and engaged daily, by work, our friends, the media, our family, that we can’t recognize the loneliness that sits within, until someone finds the true person we are…sitting up against the wall in there, head down, listening to music, not remembering the last time we went out…and they take our hands, help us to our feet and take us on a walk, a drive, to dinner and dancing. And then we come back to that place and think….I might not have to hang out here alone anymore ☺

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