Lonely Pt2
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I ask myself how we bear witness to other people’s loneliness. Not just the “I wish I could meet somebody” kind of loneliness, I am talking about the stark, violent aloneness of the victim, the broken hearted, the persecuted and the missing. We are not witnessing loneliness, we are witnessing aloneness, the kind of aloneness caused by another, the isolating of another, the destruction of another’s will to live. We are watching another’s soul be systematically worn down. Hope has flown out the window and we are left standing by, the eternal bystander who cannot bear to look away from that which we cannot stand to look at. And ironically, we are not alone, we, the witnesses. We are many. We at least, have each other to turn to and say, did you see that? Wasn’t that awful, simply awful. We have each other to turn to and say, thank god it didn’t happen to me. We can all agree on that fact, it isn’t happening to me. Kind of like browsing the lonely hearts web site, you are just looking. Just seeing who is there.