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Great job you creative soul! Love the song! :D Very true, I think I posted about this once, that being alone is one thing, but our thoughts about being alone can make or break us. Good to be reminded of this.

I really get the 'not getting a response from people' thing. I understand the frustration too. Right now I have a couple of friends who have decided to switch off from me totally. There are reasons for this that I think are down to competitiveness or insecurity. I'm not being competitive...

I know I've posted up a thread that might have come across as Pollyanna - ish, but I do get your post as well. I've been in this place many times. Not the cigarettes though as I don't smoke, but you can be sure I make up for it with tons of chocolate. One of the reasons I take myself out...

'Visible but unseen,' very poetic, deep... Deep because I think it reflects on modern society in so many ways. You have a gift there. I do a lot of the things mentioned here apart from gaming, I've never gotten into it so won't try now. :D One thing I seem to 'panic' about is spending time...

This one really works for me too! I actually like being alone a lot of the time, but one day when I was feeling really lonely I took myself off for the longest walk in the countryside. Suddenly I felt like the luckiest person alive. It's a spiritual thing for me, I feel really connected to...

Hi Everyone I live alone, completely alone, although I do have one relative who lives a 5 minute walk away and a dog. :) I find some aspects of living alone challenging but at the same time I'm in this situation because I chose it and because of a few circumstances that arose over the last...

Tealeaf, I think you make a great point here. I'm aware of the benefits of being alone and have chosen to be, but somehow I never thought I'd reach age 44 and still be so. Things happened, family problems, etc, that meant that I could no longer focus on my own life for a number of years...

It appears that many people's true desires (social interaction, food, sex, pursuit of hobbies/interests) are being willingly suppressed. My best guess is that it's due to some unproductive values, or values taken too far, that we're instilled by parents or other authority figures earlier in...

This is just a quick reply and I respect everyone's answers on here, but just to respond to Ardour's question (bear in mind I'm now in my forties so I can't comment on the younger age group, apart from when I was that age), in my view when a man wants to go out so quickly, ie asks me out...

It's really late here so i'll be brief, I like the bit where you say that by Saturday you are getting into your head and have times to do the things you want....and then by sunday you are all inspired, etc. I wonder if there's any way of trying to deliberately trigger this in yourself earlier...

Hi I just thought it might be a good idea to have a thread that looks at ways of helping us with feeling lonely. I read an article somewhere that bitterness is one of the worst things to indulge in when you're lonely. It's like a pattern of thinking that actually makes things worse for you...

I'm very down today so it's not a good way to introduce myself. Grateful for finding this site. I live on my own, in my forties, I think the world has gone mad. No one has any time for anyone anymore. I'm a busy person so I understand about not having much time, but I'm still polite to...