{"id":195831,"date":"2025-11-23T10:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/195831\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:32:20","slug":"victoria-mary-clarke-on-loneliness-i-realised-that-i-really-dont-want-to-spend-the-rest-of-my-life-just-killing-time-until-its-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/195831\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Mary Clarke on loneliness: &#8216;I realised that I really don\u2019t want to spend the rest of my life just killing time until it\u2019s over&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe author and artist talks about the excruciating silence she faced when her husband died and the different methods she has tried to cope \u2013 from ice baths to singing bowls and yogic sleep\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Victoria Mary Clarke has been on a mission to confront loneliness. Photo: Steve Humphreys. Make-up: Oksana Schelling\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RIA MARY CLARKE 6SH.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Victoria Mary Clarke has been on a mission to confront loneliness. Photo: Steve Humphreys. Make-up: Oksana Schelling<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s a sunny, Sunday afternoon and it\u2019s warm outside and other people are walking their dogs and kids in the park, or sitting around chatting with their friends. I\u2019m rolling around on the floor in the dark in a huge hall with 30 or 40 other fully grown adults, all of whom are howling their heads off and screaming and sobbing and sniffling and bawling. We have all paid to be here. This is what extreme loneliness can make you do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When my husband was alive, which was nearly two years ago, it was hard to be properly lonely. We were a bit isolated because fame can create barriers. It makes other people feel like they don\u2019t identify with you because they don\u2019t know if you are very different to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The author and artist talks about the excruciating silence she faced when her husband died and the different&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,23942,36193],"class_list":{"0":"post-195831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-people-culture-magazine","13":"tag-shane-macgowan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115598560452707395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}