Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Sunday, 23 February 2014

Loneliness

is just being bored
by oneself.

2 comments:

Bazompora said...

Ha ... definitely, yes. Little kids are easily amused by simple and repetitive things. I quite miss that about being a toddler: to not feel lonely, ever.

Wofl said...

Andrei Tarkovsky wrote:
"...The problem with young people is that they behave noisily and even aggressively so as not to feel lonelyy – and this is very sad. The individual should learn to be happy on his or her own as a child, for this is not loneliness but rather not being bored with oneself which is a very dangerous symptom, almost a disease.”

- a disease deliberately encouraged by various pseudo-collectivist social forces. If you like spending Saturday evenings at home by the fire, reading or listening to Ibsen on the radio, as I did as a teenager, then you are a Queer Fish, probably a homo, and not Socially Useful by, for example, consuming quantities of over-sugared beer...