Variations on a Theme:| Brain Pickings on Being Alone

You could be in an instant surrounded if you needed it. If your heart is bleeding, make the best of it. There is heat in freezing, be a testament.”

Brain Pickings takes a different approach to the issue of connectedness. Their introduction to this video by Tanya Davis and Andrea Dorfman: "Modernity offers a curious paradox of connectedness and loneliness. Our perpetually networked selves cling to constant communication in an effort to avoid the deep-seeded sense of loneliness we so dread. Somewhere along the way, we forget — or maybe never even learn — how to be alone, how to stay contented in our own company."