Posts Tagged ‘lonely’

The Unbearable Loneliness of Choice

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

Remember back to when you were the only person in the entire world who ever felt this way: the time of favorite songs (that made your heart ache) and trying to do the ‘right’ things with the ‘right’ people at the ‘right’ time so that maybe eventually you’d belong? Remember how you felt when you were convinced that you didn’t belong? like you’d never belong? like nobody understood you? like you were alone?

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Does Midlife Make You a ‘Lone Wolf’?

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

From your youngest years, the underlying presuppositions of an individualistic culture such as ours molds your expectations of what ‘adult’ life should look like: what’s ‘normal’, what’s ‘unusual’, and, most especially, what’s ‘abnormal.’

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