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thepete
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Orson Welles (via executions)
Wrong.
1) We’re not born alone. Our mother is there and at least one other person, like a doctor or a midwife. Sometimes even our dad is there.
2) We don’t live alone. Even if we never marry and never have roommates, most of us have neighbors and, beyond that, every single one of our lives depends on the existence of other people.
3) Sure, some of us do die alone, but very rarely does it have to be that way.
4) That last sentence is so incredibly cynical that it’s almost not worth commenting on.
But seriously, if we were truly alone, we’d not have electricity in our homes, or food in the grocery store, or clothes to wear. Every damn moment of the day we are touched by other people. Just because Orson Welles was a great film maker, that’s no reason to ignore the fact that he was a self-centered white guy who was an egotistical drama queen.
We are not alone.
Only through our relationships with others can we make sure that none of us feel alone. Only through our own emotions, our acts of caring, and our lack of self-centered tendencies can we help each other and ourselves understand and feel like we are truly not alone.
It’s this kind of nihilistic BS that encourages selfish behavior. Orson, you could make a really good movie, but you were a freaking drama queen.
I loved you in Transformers: The Movie, though.
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