I think this is an interesting question. The Lonelygirl person says that persons who feel deeply are more sensetive than the "typical idiots," and I wonder why it is that persons who are accustomed to being with others, and NOT being lonely, are idiots.
Is this the idea that there's no light without shadow, or whatever? 'Cuz I think it may be possible to create a mirror shell around a flashlight, and so no shadows.
I think what is meant, or at least how I understand it, is that persons with a greater understanding of pain are more capable of feeling greater peaks of happiness, because mabe there's a range, like singers practicing lower and higher tones, or some weird analogy.
One thing that I recognized a few months ago is that "being lonely" is not necessarily a source of art, or anything like that (not that it can't most definitely be a source). But loneliness also isn't something special; note all the people on here trying to express the feeling and cope with it.
I'm thinking about whether or not I love my loneliness with this rant, and I know I used to. I would pen terrible, awful short stories, and other weird things, and think, "Well, others don't understand the depth of emotion," or whatever, and then, when others WOULD read it, they would say, "This is terrible." The point I found is that if something is artistic, then it must be appreciated by somebody outside the artist, because if it isn't it's just wrapped up in the artist's own interpretations, and nobody else can appreciate it (again, note, my own definition). But. So it wasn't artistic.
Being lonely doesn't make me special, and it doesn't give me a greater vision of the world. It's just a bad, nasty feeling that I don't know how to deal with, and one that I don't want to look to as a purpose in my life.
