Loneliness By Barry W. Hancock

“Actually, feeling lonely has little to do with how many friends you have. It 's the way you feel inside. Some people who feel lonely may rarely interact with people and others who are surrounded by people but don 't feel connected” (Karyn Hall 2013). Truthfully, loneliness is something almost all people fear. It 's a deeper feeling then just being isolated. It 's feeling distant or disconnected from others. Loneliness is so much more than just feeling secluded, it 's feeling rejected by society, or even like an outcast. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck suggests that there is a deeper meaning to being lonely than just the superficial sense of

Loneliness is a emotion that many people suffer from everyday. In “Why Personal Relationships Are Important” Charles Meadows notes, “A study of breast cancer patients found that those with fewer satisfying social connections experienced higher levels of depression, pain, and fatigue.” Due to those symptons, people seem to have fewer social connections because of these

We no more talk about people, we rather call them individuals. We have also changed our language to reflect our loneliness, as the most common insult is “Loser”. Our conversations are mainly being personal in order to distinguish our self from the common mass. Loneliness gained a level in which people turn their televisions for consolation, helping them drive their competitive aspiration. However, as national incomes

Oftentimes, people confuse loneliness with the state of being alone. When looking at the overall big picture, it is easy to forget that loneliness is temporary. People are not alone because even back in primitive times, they bore a natural instinct to strive for companionship in order to survive. Human imagination creates companions in cases of extreme loneliness which contradicts the state of being alone. Due to societal and family standards, others in society make it practically impossible to be alone. Mankind often goes through life without realizing the overwhelming amount of human contact and support. People are never alone, they are just simply

For Participant 1 (P1), experience of loneliness followed by a loss of an attachment figure who he could trust and feel safe. This sense of safety is related to both his trust in others that they would be honest and stay with him. He values sharing and dialogue with trusting other(s) as he reflects on his life tasks and in developing a solid sense of self. His value in making a good decision for himself as well as people under his care is achieved through interactions with trusting others. A lack of those trusting others, it led him to feel alone despite of his acknowledgement of presence/availability of other people. His loneliness was compounded as he found himself needing cope with difficult situations alone. He places an emphasis on the

Loneliness can be fixed with a simple act of kindness. When someone warms the victim’s heart, they break the chains that hold them in solitude. If the victim is neglected, the chains will only get longer and thicker until they cannot be broken. In Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse, the main protagonist, Billie Jo Kempe, was the one in chains. Despite her accomplishments and desire to be loved, her parents never praised her like she hoped, and life seems to never go Billie’s way.

“You know what I’ve found out about disappointments? I think that if we face them down, they can become our strengths.” (Bauer 113) In the novel Hope Was Here written by Joan Bauer, the main characters go through some difficult struggles. One of the main people, Braverman and Addie both had to overcome disconsolate times. Braverman chooses family over education. Addie goes through hard times when she losses her husband along with three unborn babies. This reminds me of the time where my mother’s friend, like Addie, lost a child, and had to overcome that. While people go through difficult struggles everyday, they learn to learn and grow from them. Like William J. H. Boetcker said, “The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price

“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness,” Albert Schweitzer.

Scott Fitzgerald used to point out "the loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. " It reminds me of the modern world where people are acting as if they are busy. We are holding the fancy phones, placing the laptop in front of their sight and typing nonsense lines on the cold screens. We gather our friends to be talked and shared, and what we do after meeting up is speaking some vague words and then gnawing loneliness in a place full of people. Our world is falling apart, disconnecting and getting empty.

Loneliness is very abundant in North America in this generation. It has become a problem and people are relying less and less on family and friend comfort. In my opinion, I feel that this is very bad and can lead to health issues. I feel like we, as humans, were made to comfort and be comforted by other humans. Caring for one another was a very good trait back in the day, but now families are less accepting or do not care about their children, causing them to rebel. One reason I think people are solely relying on themselves in their lives now, is because people in this generation are so cruel. They can tear people down with just words and can cause trust issues. Another reason I think this generation is so lonely is because of the social media

On a very sunny morning in May, delegates gathered at the beautiful Glamorgan Building in Cardiff. The day began with presentations from emerging researchers working on a diverse range of issues related to loneliness. These included presentations on the impact of driving cessation on loneliness (Amy Murray, Swansea University), Inclusion and Exclusion over the lifecourse of older people in rural areas in Wales (Bethan Winter Swansea University), the relationships between social

Despite people being separated by differences such as our cultures, stories, personalities, even features, we all have one sure thing in common: we feel loneliness. Aldous Huxley may have not written A Brave New World with the sole intent of showing us what true loneliness may look like, but it was definitely apparent. In both A Brave New World and today’s society, loneliness is an unfailing theme in people’s lives despite constant contact through physical and technological connections.

Dear Friend, I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn 't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. Please don 't try to figure out who she is because then you might figure out who I am, and I don 't want you to do that. I just need to know that people like you exist. You see, I haven 't really talked to anyone outside of my family all summer.But tomorrow is my first day of high school ever, and I really need to turn things around this year.

There was a lack of distinct relationship between the feelings of loneliness and the size of one’s social network.

Loneliness seems to have become a common characteristics that individuals share around the world. Although this is a subject that has been a part of discussions and a focus of research for many years in philosophy , theology, psychology and literature, the scientific study has had a relatively short record. In this day and age there have