JOURNEY. 16. ONLY THE LONELY
There’s more than one kind of loneliness.
Long ago, Roy Orbison wrote a hit song, Only the Lonely. The song is about one kind of loneliness. Heartbreak loneliness. The cure, right from the song: meet someone new and the loneliness is over. In the meantime, only the heartbreak-lonely know what you’re going through.
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6Aw3ZnqQrY
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There’s another widely recognized kind of loneliness.
Over the last few years, I’ve heard countless people lonely for like-minded people, but no one’s there. They’re surrounded by people who live in a “reality” with safe and effective injections, a “reality” where anyone who suggests there is a connection between childhood vaccines and autism is a conspiracy theorist, a “reality” with frequent rage and denigration at people like themselves.
It’s a very deep loneliness.
People talk about how amazingly good it is to connect with more and more of “their tribe,” “their people.
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Right now, I care about a quieter kind of loneliness - the kind that we may feel for years, of feeling generally “unclose” even to like-minded people, nice caring awake people.
What more could one want, you may ask.
The last few months, I’ve been having a great group - Talk Time - where I feel lots of closeness to the others - and where the other people feel that closeness too.
Not because we’re any more like-minded than many other people.
Because of the way we speak and listen.
I’ve talked about the group, and the way we talk and listen:
JOURNEY. 12. LONELINESS. HOW CAN WE FEEL CONNECTED? A VERY SIMPLE FORMULA.
elsaiselsa.substack.com/p/journey-12-loneliness-to-connection-formula
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But what’s on my mind right now is something else: a downside - an important downside - of the group.
I’ll come to that tomorrow.
JOURNEY. ALL THE CHAPTERS ... UP TO NOW
Posted February 26, 2025
A reader sent a comment to me: This is a very important topic to articulate and bring out from its shadows - especially now. Thank you. I think we fear turning our gaze to these states of loneliness that impact all of us at one point or another, but that we dread. We experience an aversion similar to death and loss. Most people struggle to be with people who are lonely because they struggle to bear witness to it. While we need to embrace aloneness, we can have too much of that.
They don't use the term dysthymia much anymore, and I don't think there ever was a real understanding of the root of it. They just tend to toss it into the depression label, which I disagree with. I sense you going in this direction. I think this explains some of what I was thinking about, as a response to your writing. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395622004320
Roy is an icon in Texas. Wink, Texas was his home. Museum there in his memory. Love his music.
Loneliness from compliance? From doing what the government lied to you about?
I don't know the answer to either query. I never bought into the barnyard refuse propaganda of EUA and indemnification for the vaccine manufacture industry. I remain shot free after a discussion with a recognized Yale epidemiologist.
Embrace the truth and your independence of thought and action even at the loss of friendships.
Walk in the Light. Avoid the darkness they wish for you . They continue to search for an exit but there are no exit lights for them. They are trapped in their own gullible prison.