Loneliness

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Jenae LaTorque

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” Henry David Thoreau

Many older men have been quoted as saying that they regret not so much the things they did as they do the things they didn't do. So, you can stay there in your "nest" and grow old and bitter over life, or -------- you can go out to sing, and see what life has to offer.

It's what I'm trying to do. It just takes more time than it should: between the terrible economy and my ingrained shyness, it is difficult.

And the lit geek in me sings at the Thoreau quote, so thank you. Or as Pink Floyd put it: "Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way."