How To Be Less Alone

It truly is a golden age.

Life is hard. You live each day with the awareness that you will die. Your friends, your family, the people you love will all die. Everyone who knew you when you were a baby will die and then you will walk around alone, an orphan disconnected from your history, condemned to somehow coexist with the knowledge that your life is finite, that everything you are will eventually end and none of it will have meant anything no matter how badly it burned the whole way through. You are all by yourself save for the noise in your head that never goes silent: a cacophony of reminders that you are mortal, that you are hurtful, that you are in pain. The good news is there is something you can do about it.