subject: Emotional Loneliness [print this page] Emotional loneliness relates to our being alone from every other person. Emotional attachment with any other Peron is absent in these people and it becomes certain for them that they remain emotionally aloof from others even when they have been there all the time among the people.
Self-Disclosure
A simple loneliness can easily be overcome by taking recourse to parties, people, social gatherings, friends, picnics, family gatherings and so on but the emotional loneliness requires only one person in the world to whom you are emotionally attached. If such person is available or made available, this loneliness will disappear, otherwise, it will remain there. There is no other easy way to remove it.
There is another problem with this type of loneliness as emotional attachment to some other person demands your full confidence in that person and this complete confidence can only be achieved through your mutual self-disclosure. You have to tell everything to the person who has been there to be emotionally attached to you. Some people, especially men, find it quite difficult as it has its own repercussions.
Emotional Loneliness vs. Spiritual Loneliness
Although difficult but it is possible to deal with and remove many kinds of loneliness. If we are determined, we may get rids of completely or, at least, to some extent the social loneliness and emotional loneliness but the most difficult type of loneliness is spiritual loneliness. It is hard to deal with. People may be living with different types of loneliness all their lives some which are subdued at some occasions and , then, may come to limelight again at other occasions but this spiritual loneliness always remains there.
You may have been among the people, doing your job, laughing, playing and still spiritually alone. Every body has a difference from others in his body structure, finger impressions, mental approach and many other things. No two persons, even twins, may have the same spiritual feelings and the same mental approach. Differences are certainly there and the spiritual loneliness will never be removed. It requires hard deliberation, pondering and aloneness. If you are alone, you are at a better position to understand your inner self or your soul. Various poets and philosophers have to try to reach this point through their hard thinking and brooding. Removal of such loneliness may then remove all other types of loneliness and the whole suffering humanity to reach its real goal of perfect bliss.
John Keats was always right when he delivered the verse like,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
Emotional loneliness can, thus, be of great importance when we think about their removal through one way or the other. This type of loneliness is always there when you don't have someone who is deeply attached to you so much so that you may confide in him. Thus, emotional problems should be resolved or, at least, be cared for to a great deal. Spiritual loneliness can also be overcome and if this be so, it will bring many perks.
