An unbridgeable gulf

Despite my beautiful wonderful getaway, I was somehow lonely during the trip. (Ingrate. Brat. Whiner.) Got scolded by A when I told him. (Live in the present girl, you deserve a tight slap.) Sigh. I really have briliant friends.
And today - I read this -

Quotation: We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it by means of natural association or emotional or spiritual union. There is no way from one person to another. However loving and sympathetic we try to be, however sound our psychology, however frank and open our behavior, we cannot penetrate the incognito of the other man, for there are no direct relationships, not even between soul and soul. Christ stands between us, and we can only get into touch with our neighbors through Him. ... Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), The Cost of Discipleship [1964]

Bonhoeffer. Wow. I still haven't finished ploughing through 'Letters from a prison cell'. Must get back to it soon.