Beneath the Giants by Joshua Reddekopp
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🌻 Humans need tribes and meaningful connection. If you’ve felt lonely or wrong in this culture that values independent/materialistic gain, you are not at fault and we all experience this.
Your loneliness is a product of your environment, lack of community and real connection, lack of meaningful work, lack of nourishing values and a whole host of other things.
That thing you secretly have been yearning to do for years because it’s nourishing, do it. That thing you keep distracting yourself with to suppress the pain and anxiety of needing social nourishment (internet/social media/gaming) - replace it with actual face to face contact with others, actual physical activities, and meaningful activity/work.
Isolation is a modern invention but we are social creatures, and our health and happiness literally depends on strong, supportive, loving communities.
We want to be loved and we want to love in return. Loneliness is just as physically damaging to health as obesity (yes!), research is only recently seeing the effects of environment on our mental health, and the effects of mental health on our physical health. Healthy environment (community too) is healthy mind is healthy body is healthy life. 🌻
It’s cold outside and I just want to vegetate in the sun.
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“I think I’d like to say only that they should learn to be alone and try to spend as much time as possible by themselves. I think one of the faults of young people today is that they try to come together around events that are noisy, almost aggressive at times. This desire to be together in order to not feel alone is an unfortunate symptom, in my opinion. Every person needs to learn how to spend time with oneself. That doesn’t mean he should be lonely, but that he shouldn’t grow bored with himself because people who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger, from a self-esteem point of view.”— Andrei Tarkovsky
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