Isolation, reaching out, rejection, aloneness and the like

How many of us feel lonely? Do you wish you had more human contact than you currently do? More meaningful conversation?
Do you ever dream about having more friends, more people you could trust and be totally open with, a kind of tribe?
Or do you enjoy being alone and feel satisfied socially?
Do you think the kind of society the UK generally provides for the average person is healthy in terms of human contact and how we see eachother?
What are other people to you? Do they just get in the way or are they brothers and sisters, or something inbetween?

I ask a lot of questions dont I?

OupsIll stop now
Just curious

 

Hmmm, tough questions.
S'pose I've always been a bit of a loner anyway, so I'd have to say no I'm not lonely. No I have enough human contact as it is, but I'd have to say I'd love some meaningful conversation (not much of that about on this crappy, run down council estate where I'm living at the moment )
I don't think the kind of 'society' any Western Democratic nation provides for the average Joe, is anywhere near healthy in terms of human contact and our perceptions of each other. As a society we are encouraged to label people according to their beliefs and/or actions;
E.g Chav, junkie, raver, hippie e.t.c
The media sensationalises and demonises these different groups, generating fear and misunderstanding between them all, which results in more mistrust and conflict. Until we unlearn this process of labeling and compartmentalising(sp?) people, we will never 'all get along'.
I think I fall inbetween when it comes to how I view others, I think we all have the potential to be 'brothers and sisters' ,a united humanity but equally we all have the potential to be the 'person in the way'.
LOL sorry if none of that makes any sense, I've been smoking a little heavy on the weed lately.
Finally, yes you do ask a lot of questions , but asking questions is a good thing. If we didn't ask questions we'd still be sat in caves sharpening sticks and eating raw meat....

 

im lonely at the minute coz im without my boyfriend, when hes here i have the all the companionship i will ever need. i dont have many mates but im ok with being alone, it has peaks and troughs but sumtimes i find its less irritating than being in the company of other people. other people have the potential to annoy and infuriate me and they do, daily. but also i think everyone needs human company and whats more important everyones need a laugh and joke....life is nothing without some comedy

i dont think that the the UK society is necassarily healthy, as theres a lot of peer pressure and keepin up appearances stuff in everyday life which can be unhealthy and stifling for people who dont "fit in" but as a whole i think theres enuf ppl piled in here so that everyone should have someone!

i dont know if any of that made sense at all..........

 

I feel lonely....

 

I have solitude rather than loneliness.

I'm fairly comfortable in my own company most of the time, I like having only a few very close friends.

The amount of dedication and loyalty required from a friendship would make it a fairly incomprehensibly mammoth task trying to maintain a very great number of them.

It's why I think very large social circles are often so subject to superficiality, politics, and in-fighting.