I don't know the first thing about campaigns. I don't know how to get them started, and I certainly don't know how to run them. Maybe I can make a facebook group, they run sort of wild. But I want to make one, for you, for me, for your neighbor two houses away, the one you catch with tears on your morning run, the one that bends down to get the newspaper and seems to break on spot, yeah, that one. I do not want you to feel alone anymore. Not you, or her. I have been so alone, in my head, for a large part of my life, and I am tired of feeling that way. I feel guilty when I feel alone, because I know that there are so many humans I can reach out and touch, but I starve myself of it, I let myself feel alone, feel sad. And we are missing out on every stranger we pass. Talk to them, they want to know you. Talk to me, I want to love you. I know I can't heal sadness, and feeling sad is something good, I know that, but I don't you to feel stranded. I want you to feel those feelings without feeling alone inside of them.
Reach out, is all, I want you to tell us how you feel.
If you want this, if you want to be a part of it, please leave me a note here, or send me a message, or a letter, or just scream real loud, I'll listen. If you put your name to this list it is not because you feel alone, it is because you don't want the world to feel alone. This is not just about you, or me, it is about Us.
To get this started I want each of you to tell your friends, first. Then, I want you to send me a letter with either a single word or a single feeling inside. Tell me a story and then put a stamp on it. You can always leave the return address off, unless you want me to know who you are. If you feel alone, tell me about it, if you feel good, if you had a moment you felt really blanketed, tell me that too. But don't make it too long, because I will take a picture of each letter and post it here, anonymously. I want everyone to know that we are here. I want you to know you are not alone.
I want you to know that you are okay.
I appreciate you.
Send everything, anything.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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3 comments:
first i came to this blog via just pottering about in the internet and maybe also just to see what's going on and whether there are other people and as i have been reading this i just at an instant felt: what a great idea and: i love you, in just this way kindness from strangers can make one's day. so it is like you say, it is about us, the world, and the possibilities of not-aloneness.
i am so glad you found me too.
i love you, stranger.
I think this is beautiful, and maybe I will send you somethinggg.
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