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When I read that passage on pg 301, I felt that he was trying to say that no one is truly lonely. We’ll have our bad moments, days, or something bigger than that but there are other people around us. Even if these people are mere acquaintances or even complete strangers, we can’t deny that everyone has similar issues that make them cope with bad days and loneliness. Even if we can’t find comfort in someone else’s words or arms or presence, we all know that we aren’t struggling with our problems alone and we as the human race is connected together through both happiness and suffering (such as feelings of loneliness), and because there is this connection, we’re not all that lonely.

As for “cracks,” I side with Magda for the most part. Some are healthy and they help us define our uniqueness as a person. Without them, we wouldn’t be who or where we are today. I like to think of it as statues. Say we have five nearly identical statues in a room, and I say nearly because they all have cracks in them but in different areas. One may have several cracks in the head and another all around the body, and another may have a few on its hands. These statues now have some uniqueness to them because of these “flaws”. If it weren’t for our cracks, we wouldn’t be very human, instead we would be robots. These cracks allow us to be a diverse species and see the world in many ways, hence making life for everyone, a little more interesting.