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lil · 4241 days ago · link · · parent · post: Allow yourself to be alone and sad every once in a while
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- underneath everything in your life, there's that thing: that empty, forever empty. Just that knowledge that it's all for nothing and you're alone.
A nod here to _refugee_ who, it seems to me, is speaking to this in this recent post.
Louis C.K. talks about a Bruce Springsteen song that made him cry and cry. Yes. Brilliant. Take the moments for weeping that music, fiction, poetry, and real life present us with so often -- but understand that the weeping comes from that emptiness. Then move on with deeper resolve.
I agree with Louis C. K. that facing the sad, lonely emptiness also embraces (or as he says, brings on) the celebration and amazingness that is there when we pause to take it in.