I am contemplating loneliness. Although I spin in my own little world with strange scheduling and an odd smattering of passions and responsibilities, I feel completely connected to a few people. I keep thinking about Marx’s theory of “man’s metabolism with nature”……that we use nature to live, and to live we must use nature. Cyclical, self-perpetuating dependence. What about humanities metabolism with humanity? I am fueled by love and the more I live, the more deeply invested in love I become. Love only asks for more investment so that there can be more of it. If desire is suffering, love is sustenance.
