You keep a lot to yourself because it’s difficult to find people who understand
Everybody has experienced the defeat of their lives. Nobody has a life that worked out the way they wanted it to work out. We all begin as the hero of our own dramas, in centre stage, and inevitably life moves us out of centre stage, defeats the hero, overturns the plot and the strategy and we’re left on the sidelines, wondering why we no longer have a part, or want a part, in the whole damn thing. So everybody’s experienced this. When it’s presented to us sweetly, the feeling goes from heart to heart and we feel less isolated and we feel part of the great human chain, which is really involved with the recognition of defeat.
“We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made; in love we disappear.”
—Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing, (McClelland & Stewart, 2006)
Heyo I’m uncomfortable in my own skin. Congratulations, I’m weak and I don’t want anyone to talk to me ever again.