Always Keep Fighting

Loneliness

Everybody feels lonely at some point. Maybe you feel alone when you're actually alone; when you aren't with friends or family. Maybe you feel alone when you are surrounded by a group of people. Whatever the case, you feel lonely. That feeling is pretty terrible, and pretty common. Something to keep in mind if you feel this way, well a couple things: everyone feels like this sometimes, you aren't weird, you're allowed to feel this whenever you feel it, you may feel alone, but you aren't. 

I really want to make it clear that loneliness is a common thing, when you feel this other people can understand it; it's not like depression. You can't always control this, but I know ways that help myself and others. I hope that you can find comfort in knowing that everyone has been through what you're feeling, everyone understands. Even if they don't say so, they get it.

You are more than allowed and entitled to have whatever feelings you have whenever you have them. Sometimes those feelings will seem irrational, but it's how you act on them that determines what kind of person you are. You can't control your feelings most of the time, but you can control your actions and that's what you should focus on. An example, you can feel so angry that your piece of shit boyfriend cheated on you, but you shouldn't beat him with a baseball bat like you want to. Thoughts and actions are different things, and a strong or good person can control themselves.

Maybe you don't know anyone around you or you're around people that you normally are but you just feel different, maybe you're actually alone, but think about this. There are people around you, even if you aren't comfortable right now, but there are people. Smile at just one, you don't have to say anything. Just a quick glance and a small smile, chances are they'll smile back. That typically helps me remember that even if I feel alone, I'm not. It might not change anything really, but for all you know, you could have just made that persons day. I know that when strangers smile at me, or tell me they like something about my appearance, I think about it for days and it helps when I'm feeling any kind of crappy in that moment. There aren't any people around? You have a phone or computer or laptop or something? When you're listening to music, there is a person there, singing words. Maybe they aren't really with you, maybe the word aren't directed at you specifically, but if you try, you can see it the way I do. Set your *thing* background to a picture of someone, or a bunch of pictures of people, fictional characters, anything like that. You can look at it and think, even if this person/thing isn't really here, they're in my mind or heart or whatever. They know I exist, or if they don't, I know who they are and I love them. When you feel lonely, you can go hang out with someone, even an animal. You don't have to say "I'm lonely, give me attention" if you don't want to.