When You Feel Alone You Are in Fact Not Alone

When you’re sitting in your parked car, alone, in a pocket of quiet hidden between the commute and the grocery store, taking a moment to check in with how you’re doing, to get absorbed in your thoughts and also the big puffy clouds drifting across the sky, and you look at the car next to you and see a woman (another mom?) taking a moment in her car, too. And you realize that while your experience is so isolated, there are other people all around the world dwelling in their own interior moments, and when you feel alone you are in fact not alone, and when you take a deep breath before getting out of the car, you are actually part of a chorus of people taking deep breaths together, apart, claiming some space to go inwards before heading back out.