I love what you wrote here--and I think you're eerily astute about the problem. Loneliness is America's disease. It's everywhere, all at once, so omnipresent most Americans don't even know it's there. Part of that loneliness stems from our inability to respect and honor the past. We're always fleeing from it. And that just makes us all the more desperate to forget who we really are and lean into the ultimate con: the promise of future fulfillment. When we win the lottery, when we get that house, when we get a promotion, when we finally have an IRA. We're so busy looking forward, we have no idea where we've come from and how it has affected us.
I love what you wrote here--and I think you're eerily astute about the problem. Loneliness is America's disease. It's everywhere, all at once, so omnipresent most Americans don't even know it's there. Part of that loneliness stems from our inability to respect and honor the past. We're always fleeing from it. And that just makes us all the more desperate to forget who we really are and lean into the ultimate con: the promise of future fulfillment. When we win the lottery, when we get that house, when we get a promotion, when we finally have an IRA. We're so busy looking forward, we have no idea where we've come from and how it has affected us.