I think we all hunger for love even when we have it, for without it, we are a shell of what we could be.
I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been… When I am my present “normal” self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In short, for myself, I am a hard act to follow.
Quotation from Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
From what I’ve been taught, and not necessarily from personal experience, we should first learn to love ourselves completely. Only from that state can we truly love others, first the people we like, then the ones about whom we are neutral and on to those we don’t like. Once we’re learned to love everyone there can be no possibility of loneliness. At least that’s what I’ve heard.
hahaha, your comment on my page made me laugh, you’re just like my husband, he thinks everything should be under elevated roads, including other roads lol love your skeleton comic, no guts, no glory lol
ppfffftttt lol yer funny….
he mostly wants two sets of roads so the cars could be above it all while the big rig trucks that slow down traffic and piss him off to no end, could fight it out on the ground below… he basically has no clue why this idea hasn’t caught on….
The donkey has a big stomach but a bigger heart… and, if he never has stomach pain, when his heart gives him some anxiety, his brain takes the controll!
An Unquiet Mind is a great book
I think we all desire to be loved, to feel desired and wanted – to be the most important thing in someone else’s eyes. There is nothing worse than being invisible, unnoticed, unseen … unremembered.
As I get older, I think we settle too easily on comfortable relationships when we should seek out synergistic ones. But at what price would that come? It is already hard enough to find comfortable relationships without trying to search out the synergistic ones.
Trying to sustain the best of who we can be is a challenge – but we have to be able to love ourselves in order to love and be loved…
Great final
)) Excellent story and composition!
I have always just been myself. If that’s not good enough then no problem, don’t be around me. I have no problem at all with being alone. Not forever of course but i am not one of those people that just HAS to be with someone. I never understood that.
Hungry for love and romance, unlike the skeleton.. It reminds me of one of my favourite quotes from “sex and the city”, the series, the last episode, when Carrie says “I am someone who is looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love.”
re:Christmas lights are here now, yay!
yikes! you’ve done it again!!! the hungry, eloquent skeleton….. speaks volumes in a few small words….. sometimes your brilliance is blinding, Sera.
Your quote by Kay is wonderful. I tend to do exactly the same thing.
There should have been a rim shot after the last panel.
YOu are brilliant, at our best we rarely shine as much as when we look back
Well, love nourishes our souls..no doubt we all hunger for love!! Great image and post Sera!!
I’m always hungry for love. Or hungry, period.
Excellent!
The world has definitely become too complex about emotions. Love is seemingly withheld more today I think. We all need to be loved more!
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