The Politics of Loneliness

Last year, one of my co-workers invited me to join him and his family for Thanksgiving dinner. At some point in the conversation, he said something to the effect of: "No one should be alone on Thanksgiving."

I wanted to ask, "Yeah, but what about the other 364 days of the fucking year?"

What he doesn't understand (and never will) is that when you have no family... when you have no friends... you spend the holidays, like every other day of the year, alone. As Bruce Hornsby said: "That's just the way it is; some things will never change."



PS: No one invited me to Thanksgiving dinner this year.