iām starting to think though that maybe the reason iāve felt this weird distance between me and a lot of my close friends recently is because iām meant to be learning how to exist alone. i tend to really rely on people for my happiness, itās my natural state, that i find purpose and meaning and direction in love and companionship and nothing else really, when i was maybe 16 i did manage to distance myself slightly from others and it was the peaceful iāve ever been in my life, having none of that enmeshment, but it just does feel unnatural, and unsustainableā¦ā¦ā¦ iāve always rationalised my obsession with connection - humans are social creatures etc etc and individualism is a disease ETC ETC - and thatās true but itās important to cultivate a relationship with the self, there have got to be things that i want and enjoy that do not involve somebody else. so. i will figure that out šÆ