{"id":86891,"date":"2018-01-16T22:38:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T20:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=86891"},"modified":"2018-01-16T22:38:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T20:38:58","slug":"the-need-to-be-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=86891","title":{"rendered":"The need to be alone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We need to be alone because life among other people unfolds too quickly. The pace is relentless: the jokes, the insights, the excitements. There can sometimes be enough in five minutes of social life to take up an hour of analysis. It is a quirk of our minds that not every emotion that impacts us is at once fully acknowledged, understood or even \u2013 as it were \u2013 truly felt. After time among others, there are a myriad of sensations that exist in an \u2018unprocessed\u2019 form within us. Perhaps an idea that someone raised made us anxious, prompting inchoate impulses for changes in our lives. Perhaps an anecdote sparked off an envious ambition that is worth decoding and listening to in order to grow. Maybe someone subtly fired an aggressive dart at us, and we haven\u2019t had the chance to realise we are hurt. We need some quiet time to console ourselves by formulating an explanation of where the nastiness might have come from. We are more vulnerable and tender-skinned than we\u2019re encouraged to imagine….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

from thebookoflife <\/a>via @swissmiss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We need to be alone because life among other people unfolds too quickly. The pace is relentless: the jokes, the insights, the excitements. There can sometimes be enough in five minutes of social life to take up an hour of analysis. 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