did it hurt? when you forget your headphones and couldn’t romanticise your walk home?
“Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.”
Anthony de Mello
I think another good thing I came to realize was that, in therapy, “acceptance” doesn’t mean that something is okay or good. To accept a situation or emotion means to understand that any amount of wishing it didnt happen, pretending it isn’t happening, or regressing into maladaptive coping mechanisms will not effectively deal with what’s going on. To accept is to acknowledge, to understand what is happening or what you’re feeling and cope appropriately and healthily without self-judgement.