"There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself."

Virginia Woolf

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Regarding the part about love, I used to have these feelings. Until I realized that love is a verb first. Not a noun. You make it happen through daily acts of kindness and sacrifice for your lover. And making time for sex regardless of busy schedules. They don’t call it “making love” for nothing.

But I definitely understand the part about seeing through the “noise” of the world, and having an ever shrinking number of people to talk to that “get it”.

That’s why I really like some of the minds I’ve found on Nostr. 🤙🏽