![]() ![]() We need physical touch.Įleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is a story that reminds us that we don’t have to be fine. We are humans created to be in community. ![]() People were literally dying of loneliness. And then, after this book was written, Covid happened and loneliness ratcheted up a few notches. As the author intended to expose, loneliness is so much more prevalent than we realize. It’s a little chip in the dam that’s going to break and change Eleanor’s life for the better. Little by little she starts to break her routine. That she is fine.Īnd then she has an unexpected encounter with Raymond, an IT guy from her office who comes to fix her computer. FINE is what you say.”įor so long she has convinced herself that she is content with her life. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn’t spoken to another person for two consecutive days. ![]() If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. “For me, dying of loneliness is not hyperbole. She has her job and her routine and she needs no one else. ![]() I hope some undamaged tissue remains, a patch through which love can come in and flow out. “There are scars on my heart, just as thick, as disfiguring as those on my face. ![]()
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