Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropperis an American writer and an adjunct faculty member at Manhattanville College...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth19 February 1970
CountryUnited States of America
baby loneliness demand
Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again you’re reminded of what this baby’s carrying under the hood.
brother growing-up agendas
We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
real dying things-change
There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.
empowering comfortable
Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.
loneliness symphony play
Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.
world sometimes seems
It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem.
conflict ass grunt
If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass.
thinking able ifs
Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?
used used-to-be
The future just isn't what it used to be
happy-endings
At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.
disappear feels instant
That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
father childhood one-day
Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.
thinking smoking habit
At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.
couple toxic scared
We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.