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What Does It Mean To Be Alone?
By Life-Musings.com | February 24, 2009
Do you sometimes or often feel lonely, or alone?
What does it even mean to be alone?
I tend to believe that we are often a lot more alone than we think we are.
In this life, we have companions, friends, loved ones; we get to enjoy kinship, warmth, relationships and love.
But, ultimately, we are alone. Why? Because the only person who is with you all the time, from the moment you were born a human to the moment you cease to be one, is you.
Yes, there are more than six billion human beings on this Earth. And the number is growing all the time.
That means that most of us, especially those who live in densely populated areas, are often surrounded by people. Therefore, it is hard to be physically alone.
But we are almost always *alone*, inside, internally, emotionally, whatever we want to call it.
In fact, the worst kind of loneliness is whereby you are surrounded by people, thousands of them, yet they are all strangers — no words, no hugs, no love, no recognition, no nothing.
That’s alienation of the soul, at its deepest.
It can be quite a horrible feeling, and it is one of the biggest paradoxes of modern life. That we are constantly surrounded - beside, even on top of and below us in vertical structures - by dozens, hundreds of people, yet we have never been more alone and empty inside.
Ironically, being “alone” in the nature reserve is a less lonely experience, and one probably feels more connected with creation in there.
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