An Existential Guide to: Loneliness
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Loneliness didn’t arrive all at once.
(A very personal essay this time. Something I - and I know many people - struggle with. After all I cannot help my despair, only enjoy it…) Caspar David Friedrich – Monk by the Sea (1810) Loneliness didn’t arrive all at once. It seeped in the way dusk does: quietly, changing the color of everything before you notice the light has gone. One day you woke into the usual stack of obligations: lessons to prep, papers to mark, a half-finished draft glowering from some ignored folder - and found that something invisible had shifted a few millimeters to the left. The world still worked. Buses…
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