From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!sii!mem
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: Walking in the dark
Article-I.D.: sii.189
Posted: Wed Oct 27 23:24:51 1982
Received: Thu Oct 28 06:34:53 1982

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Something I have come to believe: loneliness attacks everyone.
It is one of those things that has to be endured without
paying it a great deal of attention.  Yes, I know, this way you
get to miss a lot of pain which makes you grow into a stronger
(i.e. more callous) person.  Callousness can come by rationalizing
and externalizing the problem.

Variation on a theme:  Loneliness can be cured.  Emptiness is forever.

I remember when I was a kid (8 thru 16), I lived on a dirt road
in the middle of the woods.  The nearest neighbor was half a mile
away, and it would often happen that I had to walk home, through
the woods, in the dark.  The process of externalizing problems
was developed very quickly here.  An owl hoots.  Jump, oh, just
an owl.  A stick cracks 100 feet to the right.  What will
happen, will happen.  And I always made it home.

Yours,
Mark E. Mallett