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June 9, 2002

Solitaire

I am tired of doing everything by myself. While there are incredible freedoms to be won by living alone, there are also many hours spent in silence. You can only play so many games of solitaire or read so many books or write so many lines of code or prose before finally realizing that you need another living and changing mind to react to. Someone or something to distract you, and to pull you out of the spiraling well of introspection - a journey into the center of the earth that can have no end. You need another mind to reflect upon my words and deeds, and to act in reaction to you, to show you further pathways yet unconsidered, and to give you another well to sip from.

I want to take a logical leap, and an exercise in faith. I want to believe in and accept more as real than the self. The self-examined life and Descartes' First Principle will take you only so far - a truly satisfying existence demands peer review!

So I wish I had someone to share this thing called life with - to help me make sense of it, and to remind me that I am more than a mere observer in this drama. My input alone is not enough - I want more to learn, and more to understand - and I want someone to understand it with me. Solitary experience is no experience at all.

Sometimes all a lonely man needs is love.