A Manual for Walking
By Hilde Elbers
Inside every human being is a deep need to belong, the fear of being rejected. In A Manual for Walking Hilde Elbers confronts us with the straitjacket of expectations with which we constantly put ourselves under pressure.
The perfect attitude, the desired response, the good mother, the successful employee, the sexy lover... We need to perform, to keep going, to be powerful, to get ahead. Flawlessly, we learn to suppress every spontaneous whim and keep everything under control. The needy person. In all this needing, feelings of isolation and loneliness lurk.
Can we start again? Let go of what doesn't serve? From closed to open? Be open-minded? Try to really connect again, with ourselves and with others? Recover from the loneliness that has spread over us like a thick fog?