Loneliness ...What it means to be alone?
By didi13
@didi13 (2926)
Romania
November 9, 2011 8:19am CST
Loneliness ...What it means to be alone? Is it when you do not have anyone next to you or when you have so many people around that do not know what you have. Is it when you feel that you have so many friends that do not have any? Or is it just a feeling of emptiness, emptiness of mind, feeling that life is infinite and you will not ever reach its end ... life is like a desert and you walk you will find an oasis hoping to quench your thirst ... Or maybe it is when you're surrounded by dozens of friends who speak and you feel like you have nothing to do with events in their lives ... It's like going through a crowded city and feel like a hermit in the mountains?
Strange is that when you feel yourself start to analyze the smallest grain of sand. When is the crucial moment when you put hundreds of questions (existential), philosophers until you can not and you realize how insignificant you are to others, how easy would get over your death. Being single is like until you have created and you are ... the beginning. Would like to be the beginning ... sense of what I said earlier .. it's like when you're alone ...
When you say yourself, what you see with your mind?
Can describe a rainy day picture ... cloudy ... no movement ... You can see loneliness?
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13 responses
@minimoyz (277)
• Philippines
10 Nov 11
Loneliness! This is damn hard. I felt like this for months when I went to boarding school after I graduated high school, or maybe it isn't loneliness but instead homesickness. We were 4 in our room but none of us were talking about going home on our first week there. But came a time after a month of living with each other, one of my room mate got a call from home that he needed to go home soon because her mother was very sick. That's when we realized that we also missed our own family. This actually gave me a feeling of loneliness. Even though you're with someone you can still feel lonely. But luckily all 4v of us made it through college unscathed. Thanks to all our friends and family who supported us all the way.
@markphil (285)
• Philippines
10 Nov 11
Being alone for me is not actually physical presence of somebody at your side. I've been experiencing being alone all the time and being alone could also cause depression, anxiety, or any other psychological health problems in life. It is very important for us to enjoy our life to the fullest and always make life beautiful.
Being alone is also not the best remedy to ease the pain in our hearts and solve the problems that always play in our minds. Just enjoy life with other people, because through other people, they could also appreciate life like you.
@loveandpeace (470)
• Indonesia
10 Nov 11
In my opinion, loneliness was in our heart. No matter how many people around you, talking and keep you company, if you feel empty and alone they can't help you. And although you're sitting alone watching the rain you can be cheerful if you think about someone you love and what are you planning after the rain stop. I can't see loneliness, I won't let my self feel it.
@befrindwithme26 (5805)
• Philippines
10 Nov 11
Loneliness is something that no ones around,you are in the empty place.No socializing,its a feeling of loneliness.
Sometimes like a person alone,feels free to feel the pain,sadness,and etc..
But it is not good to be alone,and needs friends..
@johndi9911 (20)
• Philippines
10 Nov 11
No man is an island. Thats life sometimes you feel not alone and sometimes you feel alone try to bond or social with your friends!
@sanuanu (11235)
• India
10 Nov 11
Being alone is a difficult situation to have. It could be like being alone in your house when nobody is there. It could be a situation when I am in a crowd but still feel alone. Earlier is called physical while later is called mental lonliness.
I have been alone for more than one and a half decade, in terms of relationship. Sometimes, people say that I am very happy alone hence I dont need anyone. Funny, People I love think that I am happy without them!
@rameshchow (4426)
• India
9 Nov 11
If one person is nothing talking with his/her own heart, that is the real state of loneliness.
I am always spending much time with my heart. It is my best friend.
@inertia4 (27961)
• United States
10 Nov 11
Loneliness can be interpreted in many ways, but the most common one would be being all alone. But you can experience loneliness even in crowds or around a few people. Loneliness is something that we feel from within, like you said, an emptiness. And a sense of uselessness. It is all mental.
@ceasar09 (442)
• Philippines
9 Nov 11
Loneliness has different meaning for different person. Being alone for me is that when I feel that no one is there for me to understand and see what are my problems and see me as a normal person. I also feel alone whenever i feel empty and see the place has no other person other than me because it makes me realize those moments that I have done wrong in my life.
But I always find God as a partner in everything so I don't really feel being alone every time. =)
@Dominique25 (9464)
• United States
9 Nov 11
For me I feel lonely when it seems as if there are so many things going on in my life. So many things happening and that no one understands what I'm facing. Perhaps I feel that they aren't able to understand because they aren't living my life. Even though I have lots of friends who are always willing to help if I need it. It's just some times it's only we ourselves that can get us through trying and hard times.
@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
10 Nov 11
I walked by all the sentences, passed along many words, read your emotions one by one and heard your hearts loneliness. I stared away into these mental pictures drawn in my mind and took some time to feel it. Without anyone knowing, shared everything you were expressing, by myself and I was to alone. The journey did that to me but still somehow I liked it. I can not tell you why, maybe it was because I sensed something inside and the sentiment brought me outside it.
@romymjrose06 (91)
• Philippines
9 Nov 11
for me there's no such thing as loneliness or being alone. As what our parents told us, God is always with us. So there's no reason for us to think that we are all alone. Even if I put myself in a box and let others put the box six feet below the ground, i cannot consider myself alone, that is because there are still living organism that is present and might accompany me.
