Self-sustaining Energy

Peter Rukavina

From the New York Times, A Pandemic Is Hard Enough. For Some, Being Single Has Made It Harder:

“All of the self-sustaining energy needs to be self-generated,” he said. “There’s no one else there. There isn’t anyone in the physical area to rely on emotionally, physically or spiritually.”

A year into being single, after almost 30 years of not being single, this need for anything that happens being something that I alone purposefully make happen is equally liberating and confounding.

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This article has been shared extensively at my workplace. I just had a long conversation with a researcher about it and then we went into "dating" not only during the pandemic, but ever since "online dating" has replaced meeting people in real-life. Everything is different (and essentially "wrong" from my perspective) now.

Submitted by Lucio Saverio-… on

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This article has been shared extensively at my workplace. I just had a long conversation with a researcher about it and then we went into "dating" not only during the pandemic, but ever since "online dating" has replaced meeting people in real-life. Everything is different (and essentially "wrong" from my perspective) now.

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