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It’s a blessing if you can harness it and be inspired while reveling in it. If not, it is the root cause of persistent restlessness and emptiness. It makes you feel everything is out of place and that you are not complete as an individual or that you must do something or find someone and fill the void you are feeling. Maybe you need to be in a new or a different relationship, perhaps you need to change your job or move to a new country, or who knows you may just be depressed. That feeling of falling in an abyss or just staring at a wall not knowing where you are heading or ought to go, all of that stems from one’s inability to handle it. By it, I mean loneliness.
Loneliness is what you experience when you feel utterly directionless in your life, when you find everything pointless (even if for a short while). It is remarkable how an increasing number of people are being plagued and pestered by feelings of intense loneliness.
I read an interesting passage by Matt Haig in Notes on a Nervous Planet:
Have you ever heard a parent moan about their kids’ need for constant entertainment?
You know.
“When I was young I could sit in the back of…
