RE: What To Do When You Have Always Been Social Distancing

I think there is no better or worse here. People do different things. They go protest and others make entries on the internet. Still others do both. Very few have the possibility to produce their own food, water and electricity. People would like to do it, then they would probably protest less.

But the diversity of what people do to express their will is a sign that they have different paces, that they arrive at different insights at different times.

For example, because I am no longer a young person, I have voluntarily restricted myself, because I gave up vacation trips, I gave up getting around and traveling a lot at all. For over ten years I have been living a much more modest life than I did before. For me personally, therefore, limiting my social existence seems to me to be a form of punishment that I do not deserve, because I had already begun to limit myself voluntarily. Nevertheless, I am lumped together with all the others who have not (yet) felt this voluntariness. This hurts in a certain way because I feel unjustifiably hit. I voluntarily went into a kind of celibacy because my high time of wanting to connect sexually is over anyway, I don't go dancing and sweating, rubbing myself and I haven't been in close body contact for a long time. Of course I can't and don't want to do without it completely. A massage, an ostheopathic treatment, a physical therapy would always be welcome. Also the care by close ones, man, family by hugging etc. is vital.

We are currently taking it incredibly far. Not only do we condemn physical contact, we even extend the guilt of contact to attitudes that people seem to have, and who is seen with whom, who might have a wrong attitude, is immediately included in the guilt that is attached to this or that person. Gossip culture.

Young people need physical closeness, they go to courtship, to dance, to show themselves as suitable lovers or spouses. What else should they do, if their biological development provides for such things? I think it is terrible that these young people should now find this forbidden, wicked, dirty, contagious and ugly. Out of such a suppression of actually positive feelings and needs, the same thing always arises: compulsive repression of one's own natural needs and as a consequence the suppression of the spontaneous feelings of fellow human beings (from victim to perpetrator). Just like the other extreme: unbridled, ruthlessly, to the point of excessive living out of needs without any feeling of self-worth and value of the other. To advertise oneself, to sell oneself, to climb on others and to offer oneself in a self-injuring way as well as to exploit and count unloving adventures.

In any case: Imagine that nobody would take to the streets to protest. Not a single person would show himself in public. Wouldn't that be extremely strange?