We write out of loneliness

Photo by Aliza Razell

There are moments in everyone's life when something happens, something extraordinary, something so exquisite and exciting and overwhelmingthat we want to share it. We'resocial creatures, we're built that way. So we do. We start gushing to the first person we think will understand.

It goes like this.

At first we're swimming too deep in our own exuberance to be able to notice the reaction of the one listening to us (or pretending to listen). It's only after we manage to r...