Companionship - a short-cut to salvation
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” ― George Orwell , 1984 We are a generation of broken hearts and unrequited love. Eyes, blank as dead, perpetuating a melancholia across all breathing figures, asking to be heard and understood. And that brings me to ask you that do we really want to be loved or just be understood. Don't you want to be able to cry around someone without it being weird? Don't you want to hear a voice saying and meaning, "It's all right"? Don't you want a companionship where you don't need to wear a mask of normalcy? Maybe this idea of being understood stems from the constant need of validation to which we humans are forever enslaved; it is something that lets us live with an ease of mind and not needing to climb the ladder of spirituality to a level where approval does not matter anymore. However, the paradox of the whole phenomenon is that that we need to attain a higher level of understanding so...