Thanks a lot, I'll always remember this
. Very profoundly said and delivered.
I've always known the loneliness in all this -- that the odds are always against you. And who can say, it waits on its time? I can only open myself to the element of surprise in
Dasein. If it doesn't happen, that will still be okay, I've seen and experienced other singular surprises too, though exclusively in solitude.
Actually I've tried one or two of the opposite sex, and it has given me so much lonely pain of not being profoundly or simply understood, especially in the paler, more abstract regions of the soul and the intellect... I mean beyond all the sensitive demands even, while I'm not a spoiled person (Aspie) at all -- I've had a harsh childhood and adolescence, but, while melancholia often persists underneath singular tenderness and an intellectual life, that hasn't made me cold or despondent.
I've seen a movie in which a father (single parent) who truly understands his long motherless son even tells him, "Who would marry you?"
But I do know that love and intimacy is not just a possibility. The Earth meets the ocean underneath the starry night sky. The light that falls from up there may not occur often in the span of many, many years. But, across the silent, lonely distance, I do know that such light happens through
burning at the nuclear core of stars. At least, here on Earth, I understand it... that some kind of burning could result in union.
Again, I do not have to experience the cornelian understanding and tenderness with such an exceptional female (I can't even demand it), but knowing someone like you, who has experienced it, already makes me deeply grateful.
I may have heard of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", but I haven't read it. I shall.
Please start the new thread!