People yearn for honesty, and yet our culture has taught us to be so afraid when we encounter honesty in other people that we push them away. Folks live isolated, lonely lives because they've been taught to fear the idea of actually connecting with people, and when they bump into another lonely, isolated person, all anyone can do is put up a facade and pretend that they're not lonely or isolated.
How fucked up is that? How absurd is it that every day, you likely encounter a hundred people in your community who are just as starved for real, human connection as you are, and yet neither of you will do anything about it, ignorant of the craving that you both have, that you could satisfy for one another?
Pretty fucked up, let me tell you.
-Richard
PS - I am not writing this with regards to anything physical or sexual. Connecting with another human being has nothing to do with sex. That's all.
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