How Unity Brings Happiness and Separation Elicits Pain
Let's talk about how love and hate fuel connection and disconnection in women
Healthy connection sparks joy and nourishment. Rip this away in any manner of ways, and we experience the pain of separation.
I’m reading The Anatomy of Loneliness, by Teal Swan, recommended by a beautiful friend and AN reader (shout out to you, PC). It’s too early to comment fully on the book, but one short paragraph echoes around my mind.
"There is only one type of pain in this universe, and it is separation.
There is only one type of happiness, and it is unity.
Any time you feel pain of any kind, it means that you feel separate from something."
Our world is full of separation whether we like it or not.
Being separated from a caregiver for the first time.
Changing schools and leaving friends behind.
Moving house or country and separating ourselves from everything once familiar.
Relationship breakdowns and community disintegration.
Career changes, retirement, redundancies, dismissals.
And then, of course, separation is fabricated through polarised pol…