Dear Luna:

I am well, thank you and you are welcome, a pleasure to communicate with you.

(I am adding the boldface feature to the quote): “It was really comforting to know that I’m not alone in my experience of emptiness… I wish that yours find peace and joy during these hectic times….  keeping hope and seeing the light in friendships today is inspiring when everyone seems to lose patience and clarity of what really matters: Genuine and healthy human connections“- You express yourself so well.

I believe that it is emptiness, or as I typed it, emptiness with a capital E, that is behind these hectic times we live in, the violence, the wars. If only genuine and healthy human connections were common, beginning inside homes as children grow up, the world would be a different place. Emptiness (lack of genuine and healthy human connections) creates sickness, impatience, confusion..  and wars. Genuine and healthy human connections create patience, clarity and peace.

It reminds me of the 1984 fantasy movie The Never Ending Story. In it, The Nothing is a force that was destroying the magnificent land of Fantasia, a force representing the consuming despair of people who lose their hopes, dreams, and meaning in life.

For me, The Nothing is synonymous with Emptiness.

“I’ve spent the past month reevaluating my relationships and it has gotten to a point where I’m just drained from it. I’m very much aware that I need new energy into my life…  by one sided friendship, I meant that I felt like our friendship was at the bottom of her priorities… I have given her a chance to get together and talk on her own timing but she didn’t show up“-

– genuine and healthy human connections invigorate, energize, revive, rejuvenate or comfort and calm the distressed mind. Too many human connections (between parents and children, between siblings, between husbands and wives.. between coworkers, between strangers on the street and in the supermarket, between people online, etc.) drain, misuse, abuse or create positive expectations that are not followed through.

“With so much love and peace… love and compassion“- may love and compassion in our words and behaviors lead to peace in the hearts and minds of the people we interact with, and in the world as a whole.

anita