Loneliness, The Weeping Place

Loneliness! We can all remember its harrowing pain. We have ideas and can find no one who will agree. We make friends, and they pass away. We have a dream and find no one near to say, “I understand.”
There is no end to the causes of loneliness but there are solutions. One of these is to just practice common decency, one to the other. It is a vibrant antidote. Years of counseling have had me hear more often than I would like to count both husband and wives lamenting, “I start to tell my story and am interrupted before I’m even half way through.” It’s very lonely to be ignored.
We all need each other, but we need each other at our best. We need to be neighbors in truth and brothers and sisters in honesty. I need to know I have some place in your thoughts that is something more than casual
When you were young did you ever cry out, “Leave me alone.” What did you mean? You wanted privacy? Yes. You wanted to be alone permanently? Hardly. What we are talking about is the difference between loneliness and solitude.
Reading a book in quietness beneath a summer tree is solitude. Knowing no one in a crowd in a far away city is loneliness. We choose solitude. Loneliness chooses us.
Part of handling loneliness is becoming the kind of person you are happy with and from time to time want to be alone with
Sometimes it is not how many friends we have, nor how many names we can drop but rather our relationship with the great family of humanity. Joining a church, a club a group with a like hobby or sports interest really does make good sense and a better life.
Would you be less lonely and make it less for others? Then care about the loneliness of someone else. Allow someone of a different political persuasion to exist without animosity from you. Bury your prejudices. Allow someone to be bright or stupid without your meeting them with derision.
Be kind not cruel for loneliness is fed or flees by how you daily act.