To Anyone Feeling Lonely

How's your day so far? :_PSIBigHeart:

Has anyone else ever been so lonely that you can physically feel it?

I just want one person in this world who loves me on purpose

Nothing worse than having a story to tell but nobody to tell it to...

I speak to myself hours a day. Without my voice, it would be complete silence in my life.

We introverts love it when we are alone and hate it when we are lonely

Lonely is not being alone, it's the feeling that nobody cares.. ....

it hurts so much when nobody reaches out to you in the first place. You are never directly talked to by your “friends” and continually excluded from the plans that they made together. You are just there; you’re not important in anyones life and they don’t seem to care about you at all. Nobody checks up on you to see how you are doing or if you want to hang out. Even when you reach out to them first, there is always an excuse of why they can’t go. Even when you thought you made a new friend—one who treats you like an existing person—they start to ignore you and act like you never existed. You eventually start to resort to books, movies, and music to escape from your reality and into a fantasy. You know you would be such a good friend if people just gave you a chance. You’re always left wondering, “what did I do?”

You know it's worse when you don't have anyone to share the struggle you're dealing with. Edit: I have tricks of curing loneliness for you guys, take about 15 - 30 mins of meditation everyday, try researching Buddhism (good for mental health), and remember: anyone not caring about us simply means we don't have "fate" with them, so keep doing good things for people and you'll see 👌

You know that feeling when you get forgotten in your friend group and never being anyone's best friend...

"I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone”

You know your mental state is bad when you started crying after hearing this person's kind voice:(

I think something that adds to the loneliness is this feeling (and reality) that I must always be the one to initiate everything. If I don't actually reach out to people or start some kind of interaction it just won't happen. I'm not sure when the world became this way but it is definitely the way it is now. Everyone is absolutely self absorbed and incapable of real honest or spontaneous meaningful interaction. It gets to the point where I just don't care because I'm always the one trying. So after awhile you say "Well. I guess they really don't care" and you stop trying to keep relationships going or meet new people. You become resentful of being the one to always make the effort. But then years pass and the loneliness stretches further and further across fluttering forgetful days of isolation and it all blurs into this thick fog so you keep trying to reach out only to have your fingers burned against the same cold indifference again and again.. sigh.

Reading the comments has made me realize that a lot of us share the same frustrations: We're all that one friend who's never anyone's closest friend, and we're that one person that asks if they can hang out with their friend but the friend never returns the favor. We all feel like that extra person that was forgotten about. Man, I've never felt so understood.

“Reach out to a friend” ... is funny how they think I have friends.

Y’all know what the worst feeling is? Feeling so lonely when you have everyone there for you. Having an army behind you and feeling lonely just sucks..

So happy to see there’s 1 and a half million other people lonely…glad I wasn’t alone being lonely😊

Loneliness is when your friends mean a world to you, but you mean nothing for them, and nobody notices when you're not around.

Worst part about isolation? You get used to it. It gets too comfortable... No drama, no secrets, no conflicts. No need to take a responsibility on keeping relationships alive. Nowadays I find myself feeling so indifferent to socializing, it's like I gave up and accepted loneliness.

If you feel lonely it’s because you are. If you feel you are not loved it’s because you aren’t. Don’t let others gaslight you that your feelings aren’t valid.