Jonny Sun: You re Not Alone In Feeling Lonely
Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Making Sense of 2020
For Jonny Sun, loneliness felt like being an alien on a distant planet, alone in the universe. But when he shared those feelings online, he found a community of people who felt precisely the same way. A version of this segment was originally heard in the episode, Meditations On Loneliness.
About Jonny Sun
Jonny Sun has found many avenues for his writing and artwork. He is the author and illustrator of Everyone s A Aliebn When Ur A Aliebn Too and the New York Times best-selling illustrator of Gmorning, Gnight! by Lin-Manuel Miranda. He is a writer for the sixth season of the Netflix Original Series BoJack Horseman. He was also named one of TIME Magazine s 25 Most Influential People on the Internet of 2017.
found myself in a structured environment and i needed help. and you ended up in the emergency shelter. did you feel like you were alone or did you feel you had a support system at that time? when i arrived at a shelter, i felt like it was a safe haven, however, i had never been homeless before. i didn t even know what was going to happen. and this is an incredible documentary for many reasons but the fact you got these women, who a, who were not actors to present this not for a pity moment, it s to pull up other people. yeah there are 15 women who tell their stories inside the movie and that was all due to a theater company in washington, d.c., the theater lab, that had been working, teaching acting to women while in recovery in washington. they realized there could be a much bigger audience for this. it was so compelling and women were so intriguing.