☆☆☆ Loneliness

Germany, 2017

Looking at the world, it seems that most people are afraid of loneliness. Perhaps not on a superficial level, but deeper down there is this fear of loneliness.
It gets bigger and darker as time progresses. Sits in the corners of our soul, and never really moves to make place for a different, more pleasant emotion.
Some people try to bury it deeper in the seemingly never ending fabric of our thoughts. Others get devoured by it, leaving them helplessly stranded as a cast away on an island haunted by their inner demons. But it seems that only very few people actually look at this problem and face the challenge, which is perhaps the only real challenge we have in our life.

Loneliness. It is the sensation of complete and utter isolation—of being alone with one one’s thoughts. These thoughts spin around in never ending wheels of relentless force. Once there are only these thoughts, everything else ceases and dies: the outer world with its people, the outer world with the sun and mountains, and also the beauty of life, the sacredness of life. The only thing which remains are one’s own thoughts.

But if one can see this truth then loneliness becomes suddenly lighter. There is a sudden gasp of freedom which may be too subtle to realize yet. But it is there.
If one’s thoughts are all that is left in this feeling of loneliness and isolation, then it also means that one’s thoughts are the cause of loneliness. In this there is the arising of a glimmer of insight.
What then happens, if one’s own thoughts cease to be? What is there when the mind becomes suddenly empty? Is there nothing? Is there freedom?

And what do you feel amidst the clouds and trees, the mountains, and the breeze, the sea and the sun? Is there still this loneliness amongst a mind filled with beauty?

TobeTada 2017

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It is a difference of being alone and lonely. As I figured it is a skill to be alone and we usually avoid it because when the loneliness hits, you must deal with yourself and your thoughts. We occupy ourselves with work, relations, social media, doing-ness....so the mind is busy.

exactly, we always keep ourselves busy to avoid the feeling of loneliness. Being alone can be be a joy, being lonely is to be focused only on one's own self and eventually leads to isolation and sorrow.

Getting busy prevents overthinking.
However, sometimes loneliness can sting really hard and we need to go out and talk to the people we don't even like to figure out that we now feel even more lonely just to realize that being lonely is better than being lonely with people you don't like.

This post is very insightful. We people are afraid of loneliness because we're afraid of ourselves. We're often not so nice to ourselves, and we don't know ourselves that well. And we're afraid to get to know to ourselves and embrace all sides, including the the darker parts that live within. When we can do this, we find freedom. Meanwhile, we bury the loneliness by both being in our heads with thoughts and distracting our minds and bodies with doing. The way out begins with understanding this is what's goin' on, yeah? Anyway, nice contemplative post. Thanks for sharing it.

thanks for your insight as well :)

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@tobetada Its very interesting info.. Fantastic post keep it up.

thanks so much, glad you liked it :)