You know…I just blogged something in which I affirmed a quote from White Oleander (by Janet Fitch): “Loneliness is the human condition.”
I’m thinking about it now and I’m not so sure I agree.
Yes; I agree that it is good to be alone at times…to be dependent upon yourself at least for a time. However, I believe that humans were not made to stand by themselves in a crowded room with no one really seeing them. Humans were created to partake in community with one another. We are all interconnected. We are the individual leaves of grass that are all connected by the same root system that Walt Whitman talks about.
From a Christian standpoint, I have to say that loneliness is the sin condition. If we walk in step with Christ, we do not have to ever be earth-shatteringly lonely because our God is ever-present. Not to mention the community that comes from being a member of the body of Christ.
So yes. People are generally lonely. No; they do not have to be.
People will see You if you allow Yourself to be seen.
//Just thinking. Carry on with your evening//