DOaWB Pages: Isolation & Melancholy

Isolation, like love and insanity, is a natural part of human psychology, everyone wants to be alone at some point. Even alone with other people, but a feeling of distance is what is required, what is necessary. So be at peace, not alone, y'all.

Sometimes it's best just to sit there, don't do anything but what takes you, and that gradually. Forget everything, just sit and devote your attention to what grabs you, and do it. Do it as you see fit, no boundaries, no restrictions. Chill.

Do it with not a sense of excitement or even happiness, but a nearly melancholy, inward, totally absorbed sense of self is the emotional state you should aim for, where all that matters is the completion of the work, not for personal gratitude, not for applause, but for the mere fact of completing this thing, whatever it is.