All the lonely people | from Corner Piece

If you're forcing me to think about this, I think there's like a bunch of reasons for why it's hard to connect with people.

You can be interacting with 100 people every single day and still be completely lonely if you feel like you were never understood.

In a way, you can be understood by yourself and be totally happy being in solitude.

Yeah.

Sometimes when you're by yourself, you can feel like light and warm and happy.

And you can also feel the opposite when you're around people.

I'm like trying to grasp for what the feeling of loneliness is, but it just feels like cold and heavy.

I

think that's pretty accurate, actually.

It feels like an emptiness in your chest that like no one sees you and no one would notice if you disappeared.

Do both of you feel this

way? I do sometimes feel like that, but then sometimes I don't.

Like, it's something that doesn't just, like, come and go randomly, but I think that's a normal part of the human experience to sometimes feel not okay.

Taha?

Yeah, I don't...

I feel like if I had disappeared, it would be a while until someone noticed.

Except for...

I have to be at work.

I think the reason I don't feel that sad about it is because I do think this is the reality for a lot of people in the sense that you can just exist in a city and be surrounded by millions of people and never actually connect with a single human being.

And you're just background noise in every single person's life.

But I think that's even harder if you're in a environment that is very different to your background or the way you think about things.

I'm a brown man in a racist country.

Like, I don't know what to do with that.

But like, that's kind of part of the loneliness for me.

Like, I'm like, hey man, you're going to be on my side during the race war? I don't really know.