Loneliness, Part of the Human Condition

Holidays can be painful. Lonely. Within our airbrushed society we tend to overlook the harrowing loneliness that can be very painful. It is okay to be lonely. Loneliness is part of the human condition. Does not mean you need to settle into it. There are ways to be less lonely, go to a public space, like grocery shopping. Read a novel. Go to a bookstore. Reach out to an old friend. All in all though, it is also part of being human. Loneliness, sadness, hopefulness, happiness, joy, frustration, humor, pain…

We can not medicate loneliness. Though we can make it worse, by assuming we will always be lonely. There are some chapters in life that will be less lonely than others. What I do recommend when loneliness comes in, is simply both accept it and not to settle. Breathe into your loneliness. Have compassion and love for yourself. Treat yourself gently. And then go to this amazing app, MoodFit, ( I do not benefit financially at all from recommending this tool) and click on tools, and go to CBT Though record. This tool will help, to simply express the loneliness and what universal distortions may be at play to exacerbate the loneliness.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

Viktor Frankl, a Genius