The world needs someone they can admire from a distance, from a very far distance.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Michael Bassey Johnson Absence Admiration Aloofness Breakup Closeness Coolness Distance Estranged Familiarity Fondness Friendship Frigidity Gap Hurt Left Behind Love Hurts Michael Bassey Johnson Ostracism Restraint Separation Stiffness

The human mind is a lucky little local, passing accident which was totally unforeseen, and condemned to disappear with this earth and to recommence perhaps here or elsewhere the same or different with fresh combinations of eternally new beginnings. We owe it to this little lapse of intelligence on His part that we are very uncomfortable in this world which was not made for us, which had not been prepared to receive us, to lodge and feed us or to satisfy reflecting beings, and we owe it to Him also that we have to struggle without ceasing against what are still called the designs of Providence, when we are really refined and civilized beings.

~ Guy De Maupassant

Guy De Maupassant Accident Civilization Creation God Intelligence Mind Misery Ostracism Providence Struggle

The shock of public hostility served as a stimulant. It made them acutely conscious of how society functioned.

~ David Brooks

David Brooks Compassion Ostracism Outsiders

When basic human needs are ignored, rejected, or invalidated by those in roles and positions to appropriately meet them; when the means by which these needs have been previously met are no longer available: and when prior abuse has already left one vulnerable for being exploited further, the stage is set for the possibility these needs will be prostituted. This situation places a survivor who has unmet needs in an incredible dilemma. She can either do without or seek the satisfaction of mobilized needs through some illegitimate source that leaves her increasingly divided from herself and ostracized from others.While meeting needs in this way resolves the immediate existential experience of deprivation and abandonment. it produces numerous other difficulties. These include experiencing oneself as “bad” or weak for having such strong needs; experiencing shame and guilt for relying on “illegitimate” sources of satisfaction: experiencing a loss of self-respect for indulging in activities contrary to personal moral standards of conduct; risking the displeasure and misunderstanding of others important to her; and opening oneself to the continued abuse and victimization of perpetrators who are all too willing to selfishly use others for their own pleasure and purposes under the guise of being 'helpful.

~ J. Jeffrey Means

J. Jeffrey Means Abandoned Abandonment Abuse Abuse Of Authority Abuse Of Power Basic Needs Child Abuse Deprivation Deprived Emotional Abuse Emotional Neglect Evil Exploit Exploitation Guilt Guilty Conscience Humanity Invalidation Manipulation Needs Neglect Ostracism Prostitution Shame Survivor Victim Victimization Vulnerability Weakness