There is a reason why solitary confinement is considered a form of punishment in prisons; it’s a torturous existence and can drive the most hardened men off sanity’s cliff.
As a child, I had no say about my loneliness. My father abandoned me and left me to figure out the world alone. As a result, throughout most of my life, I felt rejected. That feeling of rejection was an unpleasant yet familiar emotion that latched onto me from childhood and followed me into adulthood.
For so much of my life, I didn’t believe that I deserved the unconditional love that all humans deserve and crave. I would ask myself: If my father, my own flesh and blood, didn’t love me, why would anyone else?
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