If your remedy for treating the emptiness inside is to throw yourself 110% into a fury of hard work, you are treating the symptoms instead of the root of the problem.
In hearing this from so many people, I know it really doesn't matter if they get answers, because whatever we don't know or understand about the actions of another will never satisfy our curious mind or the emptiness inside, even when information is gained.
As time went on the emptiness inside me grew and the feelings of being divided inside overpowered my innate characteristics and therefore who I was.
It does fill up the emptiness inside — but only for a moment.
I made myself sick trying to fill the emptiness inside with food, alcohol and drugs, trying to function when I hated myself and hated my behaviour.
The title resonates and the hollows are multiple: the holes in the earth, the hollow of the hill where Buddy lives, the emptiness inside him, and the absence that Sally's departure leaves in his life.
Sailing, he writes, always helped "displace the emptiness inside me with the awareness of direction": "an awareness that there is a beginning to the voyage and an end to the voyage, and that this beginning and ending is part of the natural order of things".
"We all know the emptiness inside when we lose something so valuable," it says.
It's what makes us lonely, disconnected and feel as though the emptiness inside cannot be permanently filled up.
