YES - PAIN SHARED CREATES CONNECTION WITH OTHERS AND THEIR PAIN.
HOWEVER, WHEN ONE IS ON A TRUE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY, SEEKING TRUTH, PAIN IS NOT SHARED, FOR ONE SEEKS TO LEARN THE LESSONs THAT ONE's PAIN CREATES, WHICH IS A PERSONAL WAY; AND THIS IS THE PATH TO TRUTH.
"Question № 02: Does cultivating solitude as an artist risk creating a divide between the artist and society, or does it enable deeper engagement with the human experience?"
Ha! As an artist who has just spent Christmas blissfully Alone, I'd argue it's both. A distance is necessary to be the outsider looking in; which makes you an outsider sometimes, to yourself and others. But outsiders can lend a perspective that people are drawn to. So in the end, the solitude never lasts forever.
Q3: when someone has suffered as you have, they more easily relate to the unique humiliation - or anything beyond the generic “hey shit got bad oh dear”
Quote #3 is pretty much the permanent state of the world.
Question #3: I was a teenager when I first read For Whom the Bell Tolls. It made a big impression.
Shared pain enforces our connection with one another, and reading about the things others suffer in life does the same.
YES - PAIN SHARED CREATES CONNECTION WITH OTHERS AND THEIR PAIN.
HOWEVER, WHEN ONE IS ON A TRUE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY, SEEKING TRUTH, PAIN IS NOT SHARED, FOR ONE SEEKS TO LEARN THE LESSONs THAT ONE's PAIN CREATES, WHICH IS A PERSONAL WAY; AND THIS IS THE PATH TO TRUTH.
Question #3 is why literature is so powerful. It create empathy and opens doors to people unlike us but also the same.
"Question № 02: Does cultivating solitude as an artist risk creating a divide between the artist and society, or does it enable deeper engagement with the human experience?"
Ha! As an artist who has just spent Christmas blissfully Alone, I'd argue it's both. A distance is necessary to be the outsider looking in; which makes you an outsider sometimes, to yourself and others. But outsiders can lend a perspective that people are drawn to. So in the end, the solitude never lasts forever.
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Q3: when someone has suffered as you have, they more easily relate to the unique humiliation - or anything beyond the generic “hey shit got bad oh dear”
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