Without that inner circle of significant others, we're left with shallowness and a void: we're “known of,” but never truly known, even to ourselves.
Tag: individualism
"...it is physically impossible to pick oneself up by one’s own bootstraps..."
"...depression and addiction are related phenomena, and ... they are symptoms of a more general malaise of which the world-ending consequences may be of our own doing."
"the seeming destruction of context is the modus operandi of a more inclusive background which could provide both meaning and beauty to our lives."