“So much of the pain of loneliness is to do with concealment, with feeling compelled to hide vulnerability, to tuck ugliness away, to cover up scars as if they are literally repulsive. But why hide? What’s so shameful about wanting, about desire, about having failed to achieve satisfaction, about experiencing unhappiness? Why this need to constantly inhabit peak states, or to be comfortably sealed inside a unit of two, turned inward from the world at large?”

I love the directness of these questions, and I love the questions themselves. I sometimes wonder these things too. What are we so afraid of? Why are we always performing impression management? Why the constant need of so many to portray only their smiling, happy selves on Facebook?

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