Had a number of people pass away in the last five years, most significantly two people my age, one being my cousin, and another a high school classmate.
There's nothing like death to highlight the importance of what matters most - relationships.
Thanks for your list - this will be valuable for me to implement this year.
This made me think of the many people I see surrounded by family, buried in work and too tired to socialize. Being lonely in a house full of people is beyond heartbreaking. I need to call my mom.
Loneliness isn't just an epidemic; it's the unacknowledged plague of our time. And I would wager that the major culprit behind it is the cult of autonomy. I'm writing an article about it for Friday this week. But addiction to radical autonomy, or the illusion of it, has tricked many into thinking they can go solo and that everything or everyone around them is a means to an end: The elevation of self.
I called it the "cult of self" in the past. But self-obsession is really an end product, I think. The illusion (or delusion) of absolute autonomy is the demon.
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Had a number of people pass away in the last five years, most significantly two people my age, one being my cousin, and another a high school classmate.
There's nothing like death to highlight the importance of what matters most - relationships.
Thanks for your list - this will be valuable for me to implement this year.
This made me think of the many people I see surrounded by family, buried in work and too tired to socialize. Being lonely in a house full of people is beyond heartbreaking. I need to call my mom.
Loneliness isn't just an epidemic; it's the unacknowledged plague of our time. And I would wager that the major culprit behind it is the cult of autonomy. I'm writing an article about it for Friday this week. But addiction to radical autonomy, or the illusion of it, has tricked many into thinking they can go solo and that everything or everyone around them is a means to an end: The elevation of self.
I called it the "cult of self" in the past. But self-obsession is really an end product, I think. The illusion (or delusion) of absolute autonomy is the demon.
To good of a comment, restacked it ;)
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