Someone once said, \u201cTo the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both the former and the latter are inevitably true.<\/p>\n
Even people who enjoy considerable fame mean very little to most of us.\u00a0 They may represent or embody some measure of shared longing or common commitments, but as individuals they are strangers; and the attention that their lives receive often deludes us into thinking we know them better than we do.\u00a0 What we know about them is, in fact, what we are told about them and nothing more.<\/p>\n
\u201cFamous people\u201d \u2014 who don\u2019t appear to be one among many \u2014 are placeholders of a kind.\u00a0 It would be a mistake for us to think that they have transcended the very human obstacles to loving and finding love; and it would be a serious mistake for them to think that their notoriety is a substitute for loving and being loved.<\/p>\n
To think we can mean everything to everyone is grandiosity; to think we do mean everything to everyone is narcissism.\u00a0 \u00a0And both are huge obstacles to healthy loving relationships.<\/p>\n
There are countless gifts in owning that we are one among many\u2026<\/p>\n
Someone once said, \u201cTo the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.\u201d Both the former and the latter are inevitably true. Even people who enjoy considerable fame mean very little to most of us.\u00a0 They may represent or embody some measure of shared longing or common commitments, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"yoast_head":"\n