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.
Commentary: 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.