How lonely can a person be? Under what circumstances can he be lonely? Can a person be lonely only when he is isolated/deserted/all by himself/alone or is he lonely even when he is in a room full of people or in a crowded market place? Can loneliness’ claws grasp/grip a person when he is in a new place surrounded by strangers or can it also encompass him when he is in a familiar place full of people called F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
I am not a great philosopher nor a great thinker nor am I penning down my thoughts to impress anyone nor aiming for the Booker Prize. But these questions have been cropping up in my mind for the past few days and have left me thinking like a mad man. Day in and day out I have been thinking. Thinking. Thinking… The best way that I could stop this was by putting it down on paper. So here I am writing away when the world is sleeping away to glory.
Ya! The topic was LONELINESS. Well! This is a feeling which is worse than most other feelings coz many a times you don’t/can’t even understand why you are experiencing this feeling. I dont know about others but with me it is true. Most of the times I start feeling lonely all of a sudden and don’t even know the cause of my predicament. I start searching for answers but the more I think the deeper I sink into the quicksand called loneliness.
But, the more you think and the deeper you sink, the results/answers become more and more startling. First, you don’t believe these answers. You want to reassure yourself by telling that all this is false/trash but you try in vain. Then you start believing in their authenticity but slowly you realise that not only are these true but are facts of life.
YES. Loneliness is a part of life. It is omnipresent and always there surrounding you, waiting/lurking to pounce on you. You just have to allow your thoughts to drift a bit and lo! you realise how very lonely you are in this vast expanse of flora and fauna. It is only for you to realise all this and you will understand that this feeling is always surrounding you…

  
P.S. Loneliness and depression affect a lot of the youth and adults in our societies. Empathy, support, care, love, patience and compassion are probably not very pricey in the materialistic world we live in however they are worth a lot. Let’s try and be there for one another 🙂

 

This post was originally written by me on 2nd September, 2006. I had to move it in here as Yahoo 360 closed shop.