Loneliness is a truism and everybody at sometime will need to learn how to cope with loneliness. Well, that isn't extraordinarily encouraging nor will it help me to cope with loneliness. It is a most important step. There is not one individual on the face of this planet who has lived a few years who hasn't faced loneliness, maybe many times.

Loneliness can be short lived; your spouse is out of the city on a trip and you miss them. Perhaps 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 troubling about your loved one.

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

You may see yourself as a lonely person not due to the absence of a selected loved one, but as you spend the majority of your hours alone. Maybe you haven't any family or just a few relatives, who you do not see much. You may lack mates and find yourself facing life totally alone. You could spend plenty more hours by yourself than you do with others, leaving you hankering to have somebody with whom to share the journeys of life.

Loneliness leads to foreboding, 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 a good friend who lost his other half from cancer. After a recent visit he told me as I was leaving he had to work out the simple way to fill the rest of the day so he would not be forsaken.

Can somebody be lonely with people around? Yes; folk aren't the solution to loneliness. If it was simply being around people, individuals who live in massive cities would never face loneliness. Yes, folk can take up some of our time but loneliness runs much deeper. The answer for loneliness is the same answer for many of our wounds and discomfort in this life.

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