Solitude
The spaces in between.
Reading Rilke's poems, one gets the sense that he understood something very fundamental about the human nature; that there could not be intimacy between two people until one realizes that everyone remains in a way, alone. Every human being retains solitude, a space around them, which cannot be abolished. So perhaps a good relationship is one in which each appoints the other guardian of their own solitude and together create an intimate distance.
posted by Jammy at 11:10 pm
2 Comments:
I think I agree with this. Never really thought about it that way but I do subscribe to the idea that you cannot function properly in a relationship unless you are whole alone.
'It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable, and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.'
- Joseph Conrad
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