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⌈ Secret Post #3110 ⌋

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Some time ago I was down. Very down. Dangerously, self-destructively down - but not so far that I didn’t recognize that. I got weird and reached out in a lot of ways, some reasonable, some different, to try and get myself out of the hole. One of these ways was to reach out to an author with a public presence and public mailbox, one I respected (and still respect) very much. I asked them in a plea if there was still hope for someone trying very hard at something this late along, and much to my surprise, they did answer and answered hopefully.

I never felt they had any obligation to answer, and no entitlement that they would. Their response was brief and public but on point, and it did help. I stepped away for a while that night to absorb it. The statistics for these posts are also public - how many pass it along, etc.

It’s been passed along close to a thousand times. Almost a thousand people who thought it was of interest, or lauded the author for their empathy, or some other tangent.

Except for the author’s response, I received one other private message to this particular public cry for help.

One.

I’m grateful for that one, too. They took the time to share their experience, and it meant a lot to me. No one has an obligation to reach out to someone else when they’re hurt, but it’s interesting. We’re told the mean world is a fallacy, but when someone’s down, where I got two responses, for another there might be only wind. Howling. Empty.

. . .

I’m better now. I’m not down as far as I was. But I’ve been thinking a lot about anonymity and empathy and the ways to make it easier for the next people who hurt in some way.

I think a lot about loneliness.

I don’t have a lot of answers.

This is a short story that I like.

http://fasterthanfashion.blogspot.com/2006/06/saucer-of-loneliness.html

Holy shit.

That story was amazing.

DA

Here's the 1980s Twilight Zone adaptation of that (it's the full episode, Saucer of Loneliness is the second installment; The Once and Future King is really good for this theme too, tho)

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-bk0ExUaSx4

I'm currently lonely, having money problems, and depressed too. I barely have any friends. I'm 40 years old.

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