Strategies for the Love-Starved
1 min readFeb 16, 2020
Make art.
Alienation is built-in, so they gave us art and love as compensation.
Art is a sieve. Push your soil through and see what stays.
Stop!
Backspace: press, and hold. Flirting is only fun when you don’t need the yes.
Read.
A good novel is an externalised compassion machine.
Listen in.
Hunger is data on how to stay alive.
Reverse it.
Turn the lack inside out and hold the cone up to your eye. Use it to find others.
Admit it.
Look for the blue that hides at the top of buildings. Tell it the truth about how terrifically small you are.
