Hey guys, welcome back to Thick and Thin with yours truly. My name is Katie Bilotti and

every single week I sit down and I just lay it on you. I pick your brain, I give you some food for thought, and we basically

unpack the highs and lows, the thick and the thin of life. Here in New York City, that's where I am presently. I just got back from a trip to Maryland for the holidays.

I hope you guys all had a great holiday. Mine was very relaxing. I did a whole lot of nothing, watched a lot of movies,

and did a lot of thinking and some reading,

and basically today's podcast is a culmination,

basically everything that I thought about over break and about I've thought about for the last few

days and on the train ride home especially I wrote down little things here and funny enough they all seem to kind of relate to this general

theme of fear. And I know fear is like a huge word and it means so many different things to so many different people

so obviously it needs to be a little bit more narrow than that we can't just talk 45

minutes on fear because it's going to be all over the place so the major area of fear I'm discussing today is the fear of being alone and if any of you guys out there have ever had this like really kind of indescribable very frustrating but also just like

very like a nagging feeling of like oh I hate being alone even like you know

missing out on something the fear of missing out, FOMO, like any sort of feeling

associated with being alone or just being by yourself and, you know, the answering the question,

you know, why do we have such a problem why is it so hard for us to be alone so yeah that is basically in a nutshell today's episode

the theme for today's episode but as you guys know I really do love

infusing my episodes with history and history can be fun it can be glamorous it can be

sexy you know as you guys know I do make it fun it's not like dusty history lessons that you

hear in high school and stuff and so in typical thick and thin fashion I'm going to

be introducing some history to you guys today today it's actually in the form of an ancient

tool not like a person like the last two episodes I'm going to be talking about

the Ennagram test today which many of you guys have might have even heard of

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