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Often times when you tell people how alone you are, people would say, "Oh, come on...stop whining about it! Stop feeling lonely and go out!" Is a person being alone, being lonely? Is being lonely, being alone? Can a person feel lonely when he/she is around people? What do you say?
Well, for me, being alone and being lonely is two totally different thing altogether.
A person can be lonely even when he/she is surrounded by people or having people there caring for him/her. You can have your family members and friends and feels lonely. Anyone can feel lonely and it is a horrible feeling. Even if you are with people, talking to you, eating with you, etc. you'd still feel lonely. If you're all by yourself, you'd feel even lonelier.
While being alone...I'd say when a person say he/she is alone, he/she basically have no one to depend on, on anything...be it emotional support, companionship, etc. The person is merely without any form of support. Spending time at work with workmates but after work hours, you are basically all by yourself. Come home to a place where you're all by yourself, all alone with no one to talk to and so on....festivities, you're by yourself...on your birthday, you're by yourself....the list go on and on. People would say you're lonely but you may not feel lonely because you're so used to the silence or probably human voice from the movies you play on whatever devices - TV or laptop or the computer, whatever.
What's your definition? Perhaps both means the same to you? Perhaps, you have your own definition?
Well, for me, being alone and being lonely is two totally different thing altogether.
A person can be lonely even when he/she is surrounded by people or having people there caring for him/her. You can have your family members and friends and feels lonely. Anyone can feel lonely and it is a horrible feeling. Even if you are with people, talking to you, eating with you, etc. you'd still feel lonely. If you're all by yourself, you'd feel even lonelier.
While being alone...I'd say when a person say he/she is alone, he/she basically have no one to depend on, on anything...be it emotional support, companionship, etc. The person is merely without any form of support. Spending time at work with workmates but after work hours, you are basically all by yourself. Come home to a place where you're all by yourself, all alone with no one to talk to and so on....festivities, you're by yourself...on your birthday, you're by yourself....the list go on and on. People would say you're lonely but you may not feel lonely because you're so used to the silence or probably human voice from the movies you play on whatever devices - TV or laptop or the computer, whatever.
What's your definition? Perhaps both means the same to you? Perhaps, you have your own definition?
