Do you have lonely days?

@tlb0822 (1410)
United States
November 13, 2008 12:27am CST
Some days I feel like being completely alone. I don't feel like answering the phone and talking to people. Or I don't feel like having anyone visit. Those days are nice, to just sit and relax and enjoy my family. My daughter is almost 11 months, so we pull out her blocks, and her piano and just sit on the floor and play all day long. I don't think it's bad to have a lonely day, it just cuts you off from the rest of the world, and all the worries/nagging just goes out the window. It's nice to detach from everyone else once in awhile. Do you have lonely days? What do you do on those days?
3 people like this
25 responses
• China
14 Nov 08
Yes, I can't agree with you anymore. Too much work, too much noise and too much trouble make us so tird, all we need most is just a quiet place, with several books we like to read or only with our happy family. That's beautiful! Somethimes we need to be lonely if we feel too tied with work or study, and a full relex will surely brings us more efficient job. So, enjoy your lonely, if it really helps.
1 person likes this
@DWSMOMMY (55)
• United States
14 Nov 08
I have lonely days. I am a stay at home mom and you see toys and clothes everywhere and you just want to be alone. I usually listen to my Ipod and eat junk food.
1 person likes this
@Celanith (2327)
• United States
14 Nov 08
Well first I think you have confused alone days in which you do not mind being alone with yourself and or immediate family. Those are alone days in which your glad the outside world, family and friends or neighbors come over or around and the phone does not interrupt what your enjoying doing. But having lonely days is when your feeling alone, abandoned, wish you had someone to share with or talk to. I have had both. I don't mind usually being alone but at times I do not like being alone when I feel lonely and want someone to talk to.
1 person likes this
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
13 Nov 08
I have many days when I just sit down and relax. I like to be alone and spend time reading and working on my projects. We need time alone same way we need time with other people. It is time for recovery fro everyday stress.
1 person likes this
@adeeb747 (100)
13 Nov 08
oh god yes i do sometime , i just sleep till i feel good
1 person likes this
@apples99 (6556)
• United States
14 Nov 08
I'm a people person so I enjoy the company of others but I do occasionally like being by myself, but not all the time, and yes sometimes I do feel kind of lonely but I think everyone dose every now and then.
1 person likes this
@cutepenguin (6431)
• Canada
13 Nov 08
I like to have days where I just read all day, or maybe putter around doing some baking and some cleaning. It's restorative.
1 person likes this
@subha12 (18441)
• India
13 Nov 08
it is also for me. by nature I am introvert. i like to be alone many times. it helps me to retrospect.it really cuts me from rest of world.
1 person likes this
@veejay19 (3589)
• India
13 Nov 08
Once upon a time my house was full of visitors and very lively. This was when my parents were alive.When my dad passed away the house became a little quieter but now and then we used to get visitors. Now after my mother also went the house has become very quiet because since i am a bachelor i am all alone and being physically handicapped and wheelchair bound i do not step out of the house. Actually i had got fed up of people dropping in when least expected and therefore i could not do what i wanted which used to irritate me to no end. Now i have got what i wanted and my house is very quiet with nobody ever visiting me. I do not feel lonely nor do i miss anyones company. My social life has been reduced to almost Zero as even friends not coming to visit. This may sound strange to most people and i have been asked by many how i pass my time. I am unable to explain as my time passes very well, nay it just flies.I am enjoying every bit of my loneliness and hoping that it will continue forever.
1 person likes this
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
13 Nov 08
Hey tlb! I wouldn't say that you are having a lonely day! You are having some alone time, but not really! You are spending some alone time with your precious baby girl! So that really isn't being alone! When I am feeling like you described I really am alone! That means I don't want to be be with anyone, talk to anyone. I really want to be completely by myself! I want to isolate! And for me feeling like that is not a good thing because I do it quite a bit and that means I am in one of my stages of depression. In fact I have been feeling like that for the last week or so. For me it is a sign that something is seriously wrong and I need to try to snap out of it.
1 person likes this
@mods196621 (3652)
• Philippines
13 Nov 08
Yeah I do have my lonely days and if that was come, all day long I'm feeling blue. If ever that day would not come to me, and I make it possible, even if I feel that I was in situation. Most of the time I feel lonely especially if problems come in to my mind. Like these few days one of my sister got angry with me and that makes almost lost half of my life. Up to now the feeling is the same. You know, if I can erase that word lonely in the dictionary for the sake of those who are feeling sad and lonely like me (if can only) I will do it. I want people around me feel happy all the time but it will not allow God to happen because there will always the balance and imbalance in the world. I know that God makes the world balance. There is happiness and there is loneliness, rich and poor, beautiful and ugly and so on.
1 person likes this
@Nhey16 (2518)
• Philippines
13 Nov 08
ohh yeah i do... whenever i feel lonely, i just lay down and watch tv and read books... and at times i just sing...
1 person likes this
@inder86 (565)
• Gibraltar
13 Nov 08
for me its a sun day. my mobile is off . i am on long tour . just me alone. it makes me relax my mind after a long week. i just like to sit under the trees near the farms. far away from the city area where there is silence not even traffic noise. have a nice day.
1 person likes this
• Philippines
13 Nov 08
Yes, I have those times that I feel lonely. But when I'm alone, it doesn't mean that I'm lonely. As somebody says, I may be alone but not lonely. Lonely days are those days that seems all is not going well and I feel some pain deep inside my heart. On those times, I just remember King David who was distressed yet he encouraged himself in the Lord his God. It's good to have a God to whom we depend and can encourage ourselves.
1 person likes this
@LittleMel (8742)
• Canada
13 Nov 08
I am alone during the days most of the time we have no kids so when hubby goes to work I am alone with my cat I like it that way, I can listen to my favorite music while doing house chores when I do my p/t job I can't wait until it's over so I can go home
@successlog (3172)
• China
14 Nov 08
yes, my friend, surely, i also feel lonely sometimes.especially,when i am alone in my house.there is no friend talk with me, no one visit me,so i only could open my computer and chat online with smn,qq, icq,skype..etc.I think it is better to get rid of the lonely felings to be online with these so many lovely friends.lol happy mylotting.
@MizzLadyB08 (1174)
• United States
13 Nov 08
Yes, some days I feel like I just want to be alone so I will go in my room and get in bed with the covers over my head. I do have a 8 year old daughter who even if i want to be alone I still take time out to do for her.
1 person likes this
@iamfine (740)
• China
13 Nov 08
I do have some lonely days, especially in deep night when my friend is not around. I feel that when you feel lonely, an hour just like as long as a day. So I would find something to do like do some reading, watching comedy or something lik that, which would cheer me up... Sometimes it is good to be lonely, we all should have some lonely time to kill. I feel that when I lonely, I would learn much more than when I have accompany.
@iamfine (740)
• China
13 Nov 08
there are something to add: I lonely day I mention above means that when I have no company. I know that lonely is also a status of attitude. Even when we have a large group of person around us, we can feel lonely too..
• Cambodia
13 Nov 08
Hello! I also have very lonely days in my life.In fact, the time that I am writing this respond is the very lonely time for me. I stay at home alone and I have nothing to do. I just can sit on the small chair in front of my computer. Today is the big holiday of my country,Cambodia,which is called Water Festival. Every body have fun with thier family or thier friends out door. But for me,nothing is happy. when I look at other people walking outside from my window, I feel very lonely,and I miss my girlfriend very much since she has been away from me for two weeks. I don't know why I miss her like this. I think that my very lonely feeling today may cause from the feeling that I miss her.When I feel lonely like this, I do not want to do anything besides sleeping.I do not want even eating food. However,I can say that I am a strong self-motivated boy. I always have a sense of recovery my self from such a serious situation.I try to do many things in order to forget that lonely feeling such as reading joke story or meet friends on the internet. This method is not enough to reduce the lonely feeling. For me, the most effective way is singing a song. It can help me alot from the feeling of being lonely.I hope you can manage your self from being lonely.
@Crizhant (187)
• Philippines
13 Nov 08
Yes, I do have lonely days. More often I play guitar, watch DVDs and sleep, when I do not have the mood to go out with friends, even if they call me up. I asked my PSYCHOLOGY professor in college if it is normal having what we call "lonely day", and he answered "definitely YES", he added "as long as it is not everyday".