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We never cease to learn for as long as we exist in this life. These are my thoughts and contemplations in diaspora هذه بعض من خواطري في أرض المهجر, أُعبّر بها عن بعض ما نعيشه و نعانيه من بُعد و حنين و شوق للاوطان. خواطري أنا رحاب الملائكي

Wednesday 4 January 2012

Lonely?? Even among your loved ones!!!!

Loneliness is a truly horrible feeling...


Unfortunately, it is being experienced by many individuals, whose circumstances have forced them to live alone....


Often those are elderly people whose partners have died, and whose children have already grown up and became busy with their own lives...


They are both alone and lonely!!!


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Ironically, other people choose to live alone as a matter of preference!!


Those are often young or middle-aged working men and women who tend to have busier than average lifestyles, which they often  love and enjoy.


Although they are living alone, they are far from feeling lonely!!!


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Of course, the majority of people tend to live as part of families whose members are generally in good terms with each other and enjoy living together...


They are neither alone, nor do they feel lonely...


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Despite living as part of a family or a household, some of us still do not feel fully engaged into their family's life and activities. They don't share any common interests with the rest of their family members, and they don't therefore have any sense of belonging to their household, from which they feel rather detached and oblivious to...


They are generally unhappy with their lives and circumstances...


Although they are by no means alone, they do feel so lonely!!!


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Loneliness is an overwhelmingly deep and persistent feeling that is very hard to overcome.


Other situation-generated feelings such as anger, frustration and even disappointment tend to be superficial and often transient!!!


In attempting to conquer their loneliness, people often end up doing things that succeed only in exacerbating the problem!!!!


Some resort to drinking far too much alcohol and ignore everything else in the entire universe!!!!!


Others buy cats or dogs and start treating them as their own children, thereby severing their already weakened remaining ties with the human race. Of course it is perfectly OK to have pets, so long as they are treated as such. The abnormal thing is when the owners treat their pets as humans (or human replacers), when they clearly are not!!!


Some others end up neglecting themselves and becoming isolated and eventually depressed, which is a vicious cycles that exponentially intensifies the problem further!!


So, what can lonely people do to rejoin normal life???


Firstly, they need to be aware of the fact that they are lonely!!!


And secondly, they need to perform some deep soul searching and self exploration, aiming to identify the things that they truly enjoy doing in life...


However, what lonely people lack is real bonding with other fellow humans. Once they have identified their real interests, all they then need to do is to link up with other people who share those interests!!! Communication has never been any easier in the world, so finding people that share common interests is not at all a challenging task..


If they do this well, the positive transformation they will experience in their lives as a result can be enormous!!!!

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