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You Are Not Alone For Everyone Feels Lonely
Do not believe just because someone has a lot of friends, is popular, or tells you they are not lonely, that they are not lonely.
The time I felt the loneliest was when I had the most friends, because with all of those people around it still felt like no one cared.
That hit me harder than the times I had no friends at all…
Understand that almost everyone one has cried out of loneliness before. You are not alone in this.
And that is the first insight as to why we feel lonely: It’s because we believe that we are on our own.
We rarely believe that others feel the same as us, even though most people go through the same things inside we only truly believe what they show us, which is not everything.
We believe that we are so especially miserable, so unequally lonely, so uniquely desperate that no one would understand us.
But if you knew that everyone felt lonely at some point, would you not want to help them? Would you not want to let them know it is okay? Would you not be there for some of your friends that need you there?
The problem is that we do not share our inner selves with the people around us because we believe we will not be accepted if we do, even though they often feel or have felt the…
