Have you ever felt an emptiness that nothing seemed to fill? Maybe you attributed it to a lack of support from your loved ones, to the absence of a partner, a friend or family member.
Maybe you were far from home, having trouble settling down or feeling like you didn’t belong in your new neighborhood. Maybe you felt like your heart was left back where you came from, in the hands of your beloved.
Whatever the cause, the feeling of loneliness stifles the heart and chokes the throat, leaving us introverted, panicked and anxious. Often we have this feeling even when surrounded by people; emotional scars, self defense mechanisms and other protections making us impermeable to the affection of others. Even people as famous as Marilyn Monroe, a woman who could surely never have lacked companionship, shared this feeling of solitude:
“I am alone, I am always alone, no matter what” she wrote in her diary.
I think we have all experience loneliness at one time or another and it is not a good feeling.
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