We Live in A World Where Loneliness Is Frowned Upon

The world is not designed for people who are alone.

Between 1976 and 2008, rates of people who claim to feel lonely often has increased over 50%. Possible contributers include the almost fifty percent increase in divorce and the increased amount of stressors people experience in todays society.

Loneliness is also one of the most ignored emotions. You can make someone smile when they're mad and sad, you don't really have to do much when they're happy but when someone's lonely, the last thing someone wants to do is just to be there. There is no reward, there is no benefit, there is nothing to gain.Essentially it is the easiest job but yet the most disliked.

Support systems are what keep people from waking up one day and going postal on the people in the environment they frequent the most. When someone is alone, there is no support system. There is no outside voice to help reason, no reassurance and increased vulnerability.

life is all about give and take. Use and don't use. Relationships are social capitalism. Nothing is free and there's probably an interest rate. Nothing is done unconditionally and eventually when something that benefits you more in any-way, previous usage of old resources runs out. Or, someone throws their hands in the air and shouts that they're done.

Humans are the most resourceful species in the world and as well as the most self-destructive. I think this is because we're so focused on trying to keep themselves content we don't bother to look at the environment around them and the relationships that actions our behavior effects.