The two of you start talking about your feelings and your feelings float outside of you like vapors, and they mix together like a fog. Before you realize it, the two of you have become the same mist and you realize you can never return to being just a lone cloud again, because the isolation would be intolerable.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Deep emotional connection merges identities and makes returning to isolation impossible.
- In plain terms
- Talking deeply with someone makes you feel connected forever.
- What can you take from it?
- Intimacy changes you permanently.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is isolation ever truly lost?
- What happens after the fog clears?
Another view
Not all deep conversations lead to permanent change.
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