To be Loved alone
My older brother said that once. It rings in my head every now and then.
Loneliness as one of the biggest sickness in our society. Until then I never even would have thought of loneliness as a "sickness" that people "suffer" from. But its very true.
Alot of people suffer from it.
I see it everyday at work, when I see seniors. It is a given when we grow older our friends die and our family becomes too busy (that is if we have a family).
But sometimes I think that if you are young and already lonely, how much more will you suffer from it as you age.
Isnt it odd how the overall population of the world is growing greater and cities are becoming over populated and yet despite this fact, it remains that loneliness is rampant everywhere.
Everyone, even the most reclusive, I believe, longs to be loved, longs to be heard, longs to be noticed by someone.
No matter how "independent" someone claims to be, we all have this longing inside us. I dont think that anyone can associate loneliness with anything happy.
And I'm not only talking about loneliness in the physical sense. One can be lonely in a crowded room, with friends and family, in a marriage, in a relationship.
We not only wish to be loved by people in general, we long to be loved by that ONE someone.
I read in a book once:
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.
-Gift From The Sea - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Not so sure now if I would agree on those as being the biggest diseases/ sicknesses of society.
There are much more in my opinion.
But I would definitely put loneliness up in the top 10.
I think maybe it would be safe to say that it could be the root cause of other diseases or behaviors.
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