Responding to "Fermi's Paradox"

The second act, Two Can Be As Sad As One, is about this marriage counselor named Esther Perel that records her counseling sessions, but more specifically it's about one counseling session where this guy cheated on his wife for 22 years and the couple still wanted to stay together. It then goes into details about how Perel was able to help this couple to recognize their problems and how they should properly go about dealing with them. For this particular couple, their problem wasn't that they refused to want to make things better, they both just were doing it in the way they thought best for themselves to get through the problem, without thinking of the other. While the husband was very self centered and had to learned to talk less about himself and listen to his wife more, his wife has to learn how to communicate what she wanted without doing so in a harsh way that turned her husband away.

They put these three acts into one podcast because they all deal with different levels and experiences of loneliness. The first act was not about being lonely personally. The main guy had a wife and people he could turn to, but when it came to the grand scheme of things her felt lonely in the universe. The idea of possibly being the only intelligent life, or life at all in the entire universe was very sad to him. The second act was feeling lonely when it came to marriage. Sometimes when couples aren't on the same page, or can't communicate well when it comes to certain problems in their marriage, they can feel very alone in their relationship (which is somewhat ironic since a relationship should make you feel not alone). This was the case for the one couple that couldn't communicate properly through their problem and felt they were both alone because the other couldn't understand where they were coming from. The last one was a daughter that felt alone in life because of how she was treated at school and her das busy life style. She felt as if she had no one to talk to. While all these stories had someone feeling alone in life in some way, they also all ended with a solution or at least comfort in their feeling of being alone.

It is hard to think of questions I would ask my parents since I am to an age where a lot of my questions they would probably not be able to answer, or I'm old enough where I know what resources to use to answer them on my own. The questions I would have for them would definitely be more personal. My parents were never married and separated when I was very young. Apparently it was not pretty when trying to figure out who got custody and I have heard not nice stories from both sides. I don't really want to go into too much more detail, but most of my questions for them would probably revolve around that. What really happened? In the podcast about the little girl, Rosie, asking her dads a ton of different questions, I would have to say my favorite question was, "What is time? Why? Explain., because of her dads response.

When it comes to the podcast about possibly being alone in the universe, the thought doesn't necessarily make me sad/scared, but it is weird to think about. Knowing how big the universe is and to have us being the only living things in the entire thing is just like, "oh shit." We are then truly just a spec of dust in something so much bigger than us. However, I feel like the thought of other intelligent species being out there, and not being alone is scarier. Most likely those other species would be a lot more advanced than we are, and there is no telling what exactly they would do if they would come to out planet.