Your phone doesn’t ring.
Social media is basically the only way you get in touch with others.
The only way to show them that you’re alive.
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You believe that if you deactivated your online accounts no one would notice your absence.
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Updated 8 years ago,August 8, 2017
Everyone talks about how important solitude is.
How beautiful it can be to take some time for yourself away from everyone else.
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But its hard to regard solitude as important when its not exactly our choice.
When we did not ask for it.
When we wish to have more company.
Throughout our lives, we meet a lot of people.
We get to have friends, neighbors, lovers.
We get to have lives that arent just about us.
That inherently include other people.
Most of the times this is the case with everyone.
The fact that your life isnt only aboutyou.
But like any other story, characters are not quite a stable element.
Some characters stay, some leave, and some just change.
Just like we do.
There will be times when you find yourself completely alone.
Maybe the people you called friends turned out to be way less than this.
Maybe you have just realized that you have always felt lonely.
You have just never paid attention to the reality.
Your phone doesnt ring.
Social media is basically the only way you get in touch with others.
The only way to show them that youre alive.
You believe that if you deactivated your online accounts no one would notice your absence.
You are alone, but more importantly, you are lonely.
You have to because no one is going to come and help you.
You are lonely and you wish a friend would call and ask you out for coffee.
But nothing happens except for your loneliness.
It seems to expand more with time.
It seems like youre watching your social life narrow more with time.
Youre watching your heart as it gets ensheathed with darkness.
Loneliness is not that bad.
As a matter of fact, we crave loneliness from time to time.
But loneliness can be a dull prison that makes you constantly look for an escape.
In fact, as long as youre looking for an escape, youre kind of in control.
Because there is a moment when loneliness could convince you that this is what youre meant for.
And how I pray you never reach that point, because if you do, you could give up.
You have to understand that on some days, you cant fight your loneliness.
You will have to realize thatyouare sometimes the best company you could wish for.
You will ask people to come and save you.
I hope they will listen to your cry for help.
it’s possible for you to be the one who offers others a hand.
Who gives unconditional love and calls a friend for some casual meeting just to catch up.
