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Al Bellenchia's avatar

So many are so traumatized. It’s hard to discern the “friendlies” which may be by design of those seeking to control us. This line from Fitzgerald has come to mind lately:

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Julius Cavira's avatar

Wonderful emotionally moving piece. Had a teary eye at one point. It inspires me to write a counter argument that for the GenXers had loneliness as their safety blankets seen in ourselves and in films, shows and books—- ie Latchkey kids (I’m from an inner city single parent minority household), Outsiders, The Invisible Man, Old Man and the Sea, Into the Wild, Rocky, and Rudy—- we were showered with unbelievable powerful protagonists, underdogs, Renaissance Men, Jacks-of-All-Trades, and Lone Rangers. Even the US Army advertised the slogan when I enlisted with steep college debts, “An Army of One!” Was it our passions—- obsessions to be the unsung intellectual activist Rockstars of yesterdays born generations of deprived and neglected children, and children’s children? Did this spur the development of 988? And the Crisis Line for veterans? Inquiring mind wants to know! Sure the POTUS doesn’t help matters, and possibly a byproduct of stoic blind dogmatic Lone Rangers of what I just mentioned. What say you?

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