Loneliness is a fact of life and each one of us at sometime will have to learn how to cope with loneliness. Well, that isn't very encouraging nor will it help me to deal with loneliness. It's a primary step. There is not one person on the face of this planet who has lived a few years who has not faced loneliness, perhaps many times.

Loneliness can be short lived; your spouse is out of the city on a trip and you miss them. Maybe you are the one traveling and you are alone in a hotel room. If a spouse is away at war, you not only face loneliness but you also battle worrying about the one that you love.

Some loneliness is way more permanent thanks to the death of a mate, parent, better half or a kid. Loneliness can also come from a relationship break or a divorce. Loneliness that has no timeline, no endpoint or future reunion, brings a permanency of your grief and hurt.

You can see yourself as a forsaken person not because of the absence of a specific loved one, but because you spend lots of your hours alone. Perhaps you have no family or simply a few family, who you don't see much. You will lack pals and find yourself facing life completely alone. You might spend a lot more hours by yourself than you do with others, leaving you longing to have somebody with whom to share the adventures of life.

Loneliness leads to hysteria, stress and even depression. Loneliness literally hurts . I heard it described once by a young woman as a physical discomfort in her chest from the grief of her partner's death and the loneliness that took his place.

I have got a close friend who lost his spouse from cancer. After a recent visit he told me as I was leaving that he had to work out the correct way to fill the rest of the day so he wouldn't be lonely.

Can someone be lonely with folks around? Yes; folk are not the answer to solitude. If it was simply being around people, individuals who live in large cities would never face isolation. Yes, folks can take up some of our time but isolation runs much deeper. The answer for loneliness is the same answer for so many of our wounds and pain in this life.

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