Being Lonely in the Modern World

Since the last two days I had problems with my blogger system, I confess that I've felt with no voice, no words, with no world communication, with no rights to express myself, with no chance to hear the thoughts of people! This is the first time that it happens to me... I've never figure out that I would be so lonely as I felt and decided write something about it! 

Loneliness in this Modern World

Over the last twenty years, lots of studies have been done, analyzing the effect of loneliness in human life, specially in the modern world, modern lifestyle and mental diseases. it is an important public health concern. There are already evidences that reveal the risk of developing and dying from heart disease based on the strength of one's social network of friends and family, and recently can be noticed the increase of mental diseases due to the "busy" new lifestyle, where lots of people running around each one of us, but never stopping!  

The loneliness due to modern lifestyle is increasing the global public health concern! 

Being Lonely in these world...

Most of us, at least once in our lives, have experienced loneliness. For some it's temporary, perhaps triggered by particular events or transitions, while for others, it seems to be a permanent way of life.

The losses of people, job, home, country and freedom can easily explain the loneliness experience. Elderly people, that live a long time couple life, sometimes simply forget how it's life alone. When suddenly one of them is lead of this life... During the days, when the sun shines outside, while dog, birds and wind were there, bringing the sounds of life around... it's possible surviving, it seems that life is going on as before, but lying in bed at night, when pictures, personal objects and clothes are seeing, or looks up from reading the newspaper ready to share a thought, it’s an overwhelmed with emptiness. It's a reality, but it's the natural history of life. All of us, one day will return "home".

But, what really upset the society nowadays is the increasing number of young people, living in the huge cities, walking among themselves, talking with them, living with them... are loneliness! 

Young people, at college, universities always are waiting for the best time of their lives, they made "lots of friends", went to parties. But, the impersonality of all of this causes a strange loneliness. Sometimes when words are needed, the closed world of the earphones playing high music, or noise are there.  Other times, when a friendly voice are needed, just can be heard through the voice mails. There are moments that friendly advices are really welcome, needed, and even when the distance is not an impediment to seat and talking, ask and answer, the text messages looks like being the best choice. It's  faster, not much personal, not so much responsibilities are evolved, and can be written by codes, a new  language, with lots of "new" abbreviations and acronyms, not properly words, but icons, images, sounds, even movies, when just a smile, a warm hug, friendly worlds such as "count on me" could be all and the best to be done.

The imbalance between technology and humanity has generated sad consequences in this world, called modern world. The quite shy turn it hard and turn young people lonely and apart and hardly can see their housemates, their old friends and family. What to say? What to tell them? 

It’s not complicated to observe how loneliness can arise from either the loss of connection to others, or being unable to form new connections. Solitude life can also shows how certain times of year can intensify loneliness, such as Thanksgiving, Anniversary, Christmas time... can be a lonely and endless time... Or, the notion of everyone else getting together with loved ones, leaving marginalized feelings, isolated, and suffocating with this disconnection.

Sure, that writing and talking more and more about it just can bring a problem and not a solution, because the balance between the technology and humanity is a human ability and self willingness. It's a free-will!

I'm here, just looking for a touch of consciousness...


Count on Me!