Even in a room full of people, one can feel alone. Loneliness is a condition of the mind and heart. Seen the signs all too often ... the empty look ...glazed eyes ... fidgety hands ... a heavy sigh ... a desperate silent cry ... a broken spirit.
You've experienced it too at some point in your life. Not interested in anything. Nothing seems worthwhile. Sluggish. Bored. You are like a zombie. The heaviness in your heart wears you down. Your constant irritability is replaced by unreasonable outburst of temper tantrums which you regret.
You try to take your mind off it but it won't allow you.
The incessant gnawing eats at you bringing doubt and suspicion. You lose your confidence and self-esteem.
If only you know what really irks you. But you don't. So, how do you deal with a problem when you don't even know what the problem is? uh-oh.
I venture to think that your ego is hurt.
You feel rejected rather than accepted; antagonism in place of admiration. Perhaps you have fallen out and lost your place of prominence with some one who mattered? And so you are wounded in the heart. Under these circumstances, I guess you would either recoil or retaliate. Unfortunately neither reaction provides the perfect solution.
What could be more damaging than the feeling of being unwanted, unworthy? Cast aside.
But hey, there is good news! You needn't feel this way. You can snap out of it. (Yeah, sure, that's easy for you to say!) Okay, not in a jiffy but it can be done just as soon as you decide to do it. That is how soon you can get out of your depressing state of mind.
My seventy five year old mother was urgently rushed to the hospital recently (gave us a terrible scare) with severe chest pain and grave difficulty in breathing. She thought she was having a heart attack. After a thorough examination, numerous tests and a fat bill to show for them, it turned out that her condition was actually due to excessive worry, fear and anxiety. Her heart is as strong as a 45 year old!
The knowing specialist promptly referred her to a shrink! (mental doctor!) You see, she needed a different sort of help!
Mother got the message and as soon as she made up her mind to 'be well', she was instantly cured.
There are so many 'sick', lonely and hurting people around us who need understanding, caring and giving - of compassion, empathy, kindness and love...a listening ear.
The homeless, the down-trodden, the beaten, the abused, the rejected, and the outcasts.
Won't you reach out and 'touch someone' and spread some Christmas cheer this season?
You can make for "two less lonely people in the world" today.
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