“Loneliness is bad for the heart, suggests a new study. It shows that loneliness increases the blood pressure of those nearing retirement age to the same degree as smoking or a sedentary lifestyle.”
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8908-absence-makes-the-heart-grow-weaker.html
So feeling lonely is bad for your health. Not that that is particularly surprising of course, we are social creatures, we need human contact. We need to be attached to other people’s lives in some way.
“One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.” Vincent Van Gogh
“I wandered lonely as a cloud” - William Wordsworth. Are clouds lonely? I suppose some clouds have problems with isolation but you often see clouds in groups so they can’t all be feeling lonely. And of course “Behind every cloud is another cloud.” - Judy Garland.
Loneliness is a terrifying thing.
2006-03-29 @ 00:13