Dear Alice:

“I am reaching out to see if anyone else has felt like this”: “Loneliness.. Nothing makes it go away.. an inner restlessness, gnawing at me and the feeling of being alone.. so alone.. I felt this void type loneliness my whole life. Like the feeling I ought to be somewhere else.. Life feels very pointless and plain boring right now”.

I’ll tell you about the loneliness I’ve known for year and decades, and you can tell me if it is similar to your loneliness: time seem to go on forever, a whole eternity stuck in a day. Or in a night. Time does not move like the air flowing, it is stuck like solid, heavy. Looking out the window on a summer evening, seeing couples walk hand in hand, going somewhere, while I am going nowhere.. I want to be them, I want to be there.. laughing, crying, whatever they do, loving too. But I am stuck where I am, exiled from life, watching it but not living it.

???

anita