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Ray Ebanks's avatar

There's a difference between being lonely and being alone. Being alone is physical, feeling alone is metaphysical. One is objective, the other subjective. The subjective, metaphysical version is much harder to deal with. Like you said, feeling like you miss someone you've never met.

No one knows you like you do. And no one can ever even begin to, even if you described every waking thought to them. But as long as you love yourself, and you enjoy your own company, even if you're physically alone, you'll never actually be alone.

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Alica Cristal Water's avatar

There's a difference indeed between loneliness and aloneness. I always liked Osho's perspective on it - loneliness is missing someone (even if anyone), aloneness is presence with oneself. And I think it's natural or human to be shifting between both perceptions. Sometimes, aloneness can get too much. It's about sharing it with others, strangers and or other connections, human and animal and spirit alike. Today, I don't feel the weight of aloneness, only lightness of it, within the intrinsic interconnectedness with all. With you writing this beautiful pondering too.

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