I seem to suffer the opposite. No matter how many people I am around, I can’t bring myself to take an interest in them. It’s true – the best things are never as sweet as when you have someone to share them with.
I guess I suffer from both physical isolation and emotional isolation, because most of the time, I am physically alone–but, like you, even when people are around, I guess I can never really feel like I’m part of the group.
So, then, I guess what’s needed is a friendship. A mutual friendship. “Love,” perhaps? But it doesn’t necessarily have to be a romantic kind of love. Just a mutual caring and understanding such that no one person ever feels like a burden, and no one person ever feels “alone” despite the presence of a relationship.
Maybe that’s why counseling isn’t always effective–it fulfills the need to talk to a physical person, but it’s still missing something. It’s missing love.
And naturally, everyone needs to feel loved. Everyone wants to receive love and express it. But not having anyone to love, that seems to affect certain people more than others…
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I seem to suffer the opposite. No matter how many people I am around, I can’t bring myself to take an interest in them. It’s true – the best things are never as sweet as when you have someone to share them with.
I guess I suffer from both physical isolation and emotional isolation, because most of the time, I am physically alone–but, like you, even when people are around, I guess I can never really feel like I’m part of the group.
So, then, I guess what’s needed is a friendship. A mutual friendship. “Love,” perhaps? But it doesn’t necessarily have to be a romantic kind of love. Just a mutual caring and understanding such that no one person ever feels like a burden, and no one person ever feels “alone” despite the presence of a relationship.
Maybe that’s why counseling isn’t always effective–it fulfills the need to talk to a physical person, but it’s still missing something. It’s missing love.
And naturally, everyone needs to feel loved. Everyone wants to receive love and express it. But not having anyone to love, that seems to affect certain people more than others…