Do You Feel Alone?
One of the most tricky places to be in is to think you are alone. No one understands, no one knows. No one cares. No one could possibly be going through this. Just me. Alone. Thankfully, this thinking is not true and I'd like to offer 4 pearls of wisdom you can speak to yourself. You can thrive in a community that comes along side you, suffers with you, and you can know that the universe is not complete without you, just as you are. I enjoyed teaching this "alone" feeling to high school actors who played the roles of Jojo and Horton in a production of Seussical the Musical. I had the students write down names of great minds of the past--inventors, visionaries, and people who were famous for something great. They then had to figure out how each person must have felt proposing his or her idea to others. Like Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell, how must have they felt when someone rejected their ideas or told them they would