ComfortZone
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Hello,
I'm new here and am glad to have found this site. (Especially this particular forum.)
I ran across a few helpful articles on lonliness which might be of some interest:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-06-22-friendship_x.htm
http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-03-...8_1_loneliness-social-isolation-john-cacioppo
http://www.futurist.com/articles-archive/society-and-culture/the-future-of-friendship/
What this perhaps tells me is that maybe (to reference a football term) I might have been using some 'Unnecessary Roughness' upon myself as far as feeling lonely is concerned and perhaps for many others here as well.
I am currently reading the book by Olds & Schwartz: "The Lonely American - Drifting Apart in the Twenty-First Century" as mentioned in the 2nd article and am finding it to be quite telling, helpful and well written (though I did notice the absence of the word 'trust' in the index, which I find a bit odd?)
The last article makes reference to the song: "For What It's Worth" (1967):
http://www.reasontorock.com/tracks/for_what_its_worth.html
So, I am starting to feel now that my loneliness is not so much all my fault as much as it can be contributed to "in part, due to living in a society that's built more for a certain kind of efficiency than human needs" (someone else's insight on that one.)
For me, this is helping to take the edge off a bit in the anxiety I currently feel in really, seriously considering stepping out of my comfort zone in making new friends, because I am realizing that I am not alone....in my loneliness and that there are probably a lot of other people out there who are feeling and needing the same thing.
~ For what it's worth.
I'm new here and am glad to have found this site. (Especially this particular forum.)
I ran across a few helpful articles on lonliness which might be of some interest:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-06-22-friendship_x.htm
http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-03-...8_1_loneliness-social-isolation-john-cacioppo
http://www.futurist.com/articles-archive/society-and-culture/the-future-of-friendship/
What this perhaps tells me is that maybe (to reference a football term) I might have been using some 'Unnecessary Roughness' upon myself as far as feeling lonely is concerned and perhaps for many others here as well.
I am currently reading the book by Olds & Schwartz: "The Lonely American - Drifting Apart in the Twenty-First Century" as mentioned in the 2nd article and am finding it to be quite telling, helpful and well written (though I did notice the absence of the word 'trust' in the index, which I find a bit odd?)
The last article makes reference to the song: "For What It's Worth" (1967):
http://www.reasontorock.com/tracks/for_what_its_worth.html
So, I am starting to feel now that my loneliness is not so much all my fault as much as it can be contributed to "in part, due to living in a society that's built more for a certain kind of efficiency than human needs" (someone else's insight on that one.)
For me, this is helping to take the edge off a bit in the anxiety I currently feel in really, seriously considering stepping out of my comfort zone in making new friends, because I am realizing that I am not alone....in my loneliness and that there are probably a lot of other people out there who are feeling and needing the same thing.
~ For what it's worth.