On Loneliness

What I've noticed in the past couple of months is a pandemic of loneliness. Loneliness comes in many forms and it doesn't necessarily mean you are physcially alone; it's a feeling inside of you. Every single person on this planet has their own agendas or purpose and this tends to separate all of us from each other. Then, there is this thing where humans thrive on community and/or feeling apart of something. It's a cluster of complex notions that we understand in our nature, but is really difficult to execute in terms of the expectations we have for ourselves. Do I think about myself? or should I only think about other people? It's a dicotomy that rules most of the world's population and collectively, it is always about 'what's the right thing to do'?

I'm not completely understanding where I'm going with this, but what I am seeing are people in the state of loneliness waiting to be seen and heard. Restraint and lack of truth has a lot to do with it. There are many people holding back or aren't willing to face their situations. It's a scary world out there. Many of us get so caught up in the bullshit, we forget about each other and really understand that we are all in this together. We all have a common purpose; to experience, grow, and change. Some people can have this and some have a harder time with it, but what seems to happen is that our own personal agendas tend to rule our state of being. We want this and we want that...we want to accomplish this and not be friends with this person and fuck this person and fuck over this person or request yams on thanksgiving because it gives you less gas so you don't fart in front of great-grandma Phyllis because she thinks it's rude....and etc. These aren't necessarily bad things, they are things we might be wanting.

When life goes bananas, there is a feeling that no one understands because our agendas are so personal... but thinking about why we are lonely is so important because maybe we aren't at all. Maybe we are lonely because we get stuck in the concept or feeling of loneliness.

Loneliness has various grades, but are all valid in nature. A leader might feel lonely because he is the one everyone is looking up to (but who does he turn to?). A homeless person on the street may feel lonely because they have no family or friends to care or love for them. A high school girl might feel lonely because all of her friends have found the love of their lives and she hasn't yet. It is all about perception and there is no wrong perception about this.

Loneliness isn't necessarily the most friendliest feeling, but there might be a reason for it and what's great about emotions or a state of being is there's always room for change.