The Opposite of Loneliness
Marina Keegan — Yale Daily News, 2012
We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life. It’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together.
Written the week before she died at 22. About the specific feeling of being surrounded by people who are genuinely in this together with you — and why that doesn’t have to be something you leave behind.