Chapter 14: How To Deal With Loneliness Without Using Drugs
Inside our head, we are always alone.
Even when we are with others physically, we still remain alone in our self.
Throughout life, we often seek things like drugs to help us numb this feeling of isolation.
Drugs make it fun to be alone.
They de-familiarize us from our self and for a little while, we feel what it means to exist separate from our usual brain patterns.
We become ok with being alone, because for a brief and fleeting moment, it feels like we are not.
But we soon sober up and find our self deeper and more attached to loneliness than ever before.
So how can we eliminate our feeling of loneliness and, instead, produce and sustain a feeling of connection and disembodiment without depending on intoxicating substances to induce it?
Instead of trying to numb our sense of loneliness, we must accept and embrace it.
We cannot tap into any sense of collectivity until we have first embraced what it takes to exist as an individual.
We must sit with and learn from our loneliness.
We must experience its confusion, sadness, and pain.
Through this, we can then begin to explore corners of our self that we otherwise would never visit.
We can learn from the depth of our lonesomeness and form it into a unique and valuable self.
We can then use our newfound self to develop strong and genuine social connections because we will have developed depth and sincerity in our character.
We will be able to plug our loneliness into the collective exchange of life and personality, and we will soon begin to feel less and less alone.
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