Somewhat altered.
Imagine how much of your love, your thoughts or even your anger deal with someone in your family. Your wife, your children, your brothers and sisters, your parents.
Imagine if that was taken from you. Imagine if you were totally alone. You think you would be happy. You think you would be totally free. But everything you hoped? It turns to a nightmare. There is nothing in human genetics that deals with being alone.
In our early history being alone meant being eaten in addition to not being part of a family. Friends are wonderful, but when you have no family you still have a hole inside you. I can go deep into existentialism about the void. But if you truly believe in it, or understand it, the void is something of awesome horror. The void is being in a vacuum, nothing, forever, alone. No pain, no suffering just nothing forever and when you are without a family, all alone your imagination takes the principals of the void to another reality.
Or it could make it better. Being alone is something people do not deal with often so having experienced it, living with it, the only child knows all about the void. But they do not know what it is all about forever.
In baseball once you get hit by a pitch you know you can survive it, it is not that bad. But until then, you are either afraid of it, or you are confident they never can hit you. But what you are thinking is not about forever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK55GYyMs8I
Billy Blackfeather
How much money will save your soul? You better ask someone other that Jesus. or actually Buddha, or actually Muhammad, or Yule Brynner, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera