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ARE YOU LONELY??? AREN'T WE ALL LONELY???

The question about loneliness has hit me at the gym today. I walked in and doing my daily routine of working out, and then all the sudden I started to wonder why we are all doing this...wanting to have better body, wanting to feel better about ourselves, and wanting to have someone notice us in this big world.

Are we all that lonely? Are we in desperate need to find some attention and attraction?

I dont know about you all, but I can honestly that I am lonely.

Is this feeling normal?

I want love...but love has not found me yet.

Loneliness is not good. It can kill you. It will make you feel unwanted, un-needed, dry, and sad. It makes you long for it, for that someone to come along and find their way to your heart.

I wonder if I will find it. I wonder if it will find me?

So..ARE WE ALL LONELY?

Isn't that why we create an illusion of going out at night, partying, socializing with these meaningless people, hoping to find that person among the crowd?

Isn't that why we hope that a brief moment of happiness and drunkenness will last long enough for us to not waking up in the middle of the night, crying to the emptiness that is clouded deep inside our soul.

I used to feel needed, loved, wanted..when I was very young, and all attention was given to me.

Now, years have past.. and all I am is just another soul in this universe wanting to find its place.. the real place for me.. not in a pretentious bar filled with these pretentious people who want a quick way out of loneliness...just to be able to touch and feel some random strangers for an hour...and start all over again the next day.

Being me today and knowing me today knowing that the world is a big void filled with same kind of people everywhere looking for the same damn thing is not a comfort, but a comfirmation that this is a cycle we will all go thru in life.

Will we ever mean anything to anyone? Or does that even matter if we mean anything to anyone?

So...

Are you lonely???

Do you hear silence in your heart when you sleep at night, yet wide awake in your own subconsciousness.

Are you lonely???

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Marie Jost

Yes, dear, we are all lonely. Those who don't realize this yet are only in denial. This existential loneliness is at the heart of every religion and every philosophy. The question about the existence (or not) of God and the characteristics of said God(s) are all driven by this sense of being alone and isolated in the universe and wondering what it all means. We all come into the world alone and we all leave it alone. That is the heart of the human condition. No other human-being can really know us. Sometimes I wonder if we can even know our own selves. Sometimes the human condition means having to bear that loneliness, alone. When you are most alone is just when there is no one to talk to, no one to cling to, for whatever reason. Many times it is just the timing of your life and the lives of others that you are utterly alone with your loneliness. The time of loneliness will pass, but yet it never really passes, because we all know that it is at the root of our very existence. Loving someone else, loving a God, loving oneself in the end cannot erase completely this knowledge of the great aloneness that is at the heart of human existence. In the Jewish/Christian creation story, God generates creation because he no longer wants to be alone. This same God makes the first man a companion (the first woman) so that the man will not have to be alone, even though this first man walked with God and had an intimate relationship with him in the Garden of Eden. So, you see, human-beings have been pondering this very issue for thousands of years. In this, you are not alone. Not that any of this will make you feel better in the middle of the night (or the afternoon or morning), when the awareness of the magnitude of this aloneness makes its presence known once more.

接近 16 年 ago

Justice V

Yeah, always? It's a weird, vicious cycle to try and be accepted, looking for acknowledgement and love and a sense of being and belonging. The comfort of knowing others love you as much as you love them. Would be much simplier if we could be rid of that sense and just content being alone, and take it when it comes as a blessing or an added benefit, rather than the goal we long for.

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Christopher Lay

Interesting post, Ohm. My perspective is quite different from the other comments you've had. Happy, lonely, sad, joy, anger, these are emotions and we are emotional beings. It is possible to experience all of them, and more, in one day. Belonging to a group or belonging with another person will probably raise joy and happiness in an individual, but not necessarily all the time. However, I do not believe that we are all fundamentally lonely. That strikes me as a very euro centric perspective on the world. But the sense of being alone, does make me appreciate belonging. Sadness makes happiness all that much sweeter. Just as night makes me appreciate daylight. My father was an only child and is content to be alone for days without feeling lonely. All I can tell you is that, from my perspective, loneliness is only temporary at worst, and scarce most of the time. And I would not for the world have it otherwise. But there have been times when I was and I can respect where you are coming from. I am reminded of the death of a dear friend of mine. He was in his 80's, in the hospital and his life was ending. His family knew it was his time and had gathered around him and they were singing to him and praying for him and saying whatever family members might say in those moments. His expression, his daughter told me, was one of incredible joy and that as he was slipping from this existence, he was conversing with his departed wife. Believe, don't believe in God or an afterlife. He did not die alone. I guess I'm rambling. Short answer. No I'm not. If you cannot find what you are looking for in clubs, seek it elsewhere. I would think meeting people who are passionate about what they are doing would be more rewarding in the end anyway. Where ever your journey takes you, enjoy the trip.

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Christopher Lay

Great shot, by the way.

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O H M Photography

i enjoy sharing and hearing thoughts and having this emotional and intellectual discussion on here most...so thank you everyone for sharing... i can agree with everyone of you....after all, emotions and feelings are so random, biased, and truly subjective that we have no way to understand or justify it. all i know is that we own them...

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My name is Ohm. I am an artist. I am here to share my vision to the world. I believe that without art, life is never fully lived. And I also believe in

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语言: english, thai
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