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Earlier this week I asked a question about loneliness, so I'm gonna ask this follow-up question. What do you think the difference is between lonely and alone? For me, lonely is an emotion. It's a feeling. It's something you can experience in a room full of people. I'm talking about with your partner, with your friends, with your family, with your classmates, with your co-workers. You get the idea. And being alone is physical. You know, you just see one person standing there and it's almost never a bad thing. I truly enjoy being alone at times, especially when I'm running errands or going shopping. I like having no outside influences and just really sticking to the plan. But yeah, we'd love to hear your thoughts.
Lol I think lonely is more of a feeling when you feel like how long you're like oh no I want someone to be around when you're alone this is more like you're alone it's OK like you're fine you can possibly like messing around like in the house dancing or something but you're alone
I really love that you brought up in loneliness that you desire someone versus when you're alone that you don't always want someone around and you're fine by yourself. Really great point. I love that.
I love this question so thank you for sharing this. I definitely agree with you of like loneliness being something that you feel whereas being alone is rather they're just like physical thing of being alone.
Loneliness is one of those hard emotions as well that are hard to shake and once you feel them It's kind of hard to know what to do because it's not about being alone it's about just feeling lonely and And that's a tough one to tackle.
Aw, thank you so much for taking the time to respond to this post and everything you just said really honestly aligns with what I said. So great minds think alike. I'm glad you agree.
What you just said right now about loneliness being a hard feeling to shake, oh my goodness, I can't begin to tell you how many times that I felt lonely in a room full of people. You're right, it's like not knowing exactly what to do to shake it off. Because when you're alone, it's just a simple solution of, you know, doing what you love to do or calling up a loved one, but when you're feeling lonely, it's like, okay, well, who do you really turn to?
I totally agree with you on your explanation that a loan is more physical and lonely is more of a motion. My therapist always tells me, Irene, you're not alone, you're just feeling lonely. So that's something you can actually solve for.
I really love what your therapist said so thank you so much for sharing that because I've always told people the difference between lonely and alone is what I said in my post earlier right but most people don't differentiate the difference and in society we see it as like a lumped sum so again thank you Thank you for sharing that.
I think there's a difference between being lonely because sometimes you know that even though there's an option out there for you, it's better to be alone. And knowing that you also crave intimacy is the difference between lonely and alone.
I really appreciate the time you took to answer this post because everything you just said was so perfectly put and beyond that, especially when you talked about someone craving intimacy. That is so true because when I was younger and I had those feelings of loneliness, I would ask myself, I want to be loved. Am I loved? I want to be wanted. Am I wanted? I want to be chosen. Am I chosen? you know, it's a lot.
All right so like me personally I think loneliness is like being alone but like not by choice like you're like by your sound like you're lonely but like being alone is more like a choice you do you decide to be alone like you want to be alone and I like you decide to be alone but you don't decide to be lonely I guess I don't I don't know how to explain it but that's all goes in my mind
I love that you pointed out the difference of choice because loneliness is not a choice but being alone is a great point. And I didn't even think about that at first, about the overall choice part. I was thinking about it more in physical mental, but you brought up something that is very eye-opening to most. most. It's about choice. So thank you.
man, I don't know, there's not much of a death. But if you're lonely, you can be happy and also be lonely. Being alone is like, there's not much around you that you can really reciprocate any sort of attention from. You can still be alone and happy, but strictly speaking, being alone just is being alone. You know, I'm saying being lonely is like you can be happy but not have never reciprocation toward anything around you oh I'm lonely but I'm happy