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I'd replace 'lonely' with 'lacking perspective', due to life being unbelievably great. It's hard to know the difference - just go without hot water, electricit
by alexashka 7y ago
I'd replace 'lonely' with 'lacking perspective', due to life being unbelievably great.
It's hard to know the difference - just go without hot water, electricity or much food for a few days and then see how much 'loneliness' bothers you.
It's an epidemic of life being so incredible, that we're constantly bored and restless. Strong human connections are made through negative experiences, not ecstasy.
You can't have an awesome life of doing nothing difficult, and yet have great close relationships. You have to choose.
We have choice now - in the past, you had to suffer. Now, you can choose to, if you want. Most people are choosing to not and slowly degenerate into old age, with a bored half-smile on their face at best, cluelessly bitching about trivialities at worst. It's all fine - just remember, you have to choose to suffer, if you want to achieve a great life.
- watwut 7y agoPeople without water and electricity suffer from loneliness too. Always did. The churches have structures that provide company to sick and old for that reason. If you ever read books from previous eras including war times, they deal with loneliness a lot. Physical suffering does not make you not lonely. It just means it sux for more reasons then just one.