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 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.

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 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.

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

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