“Loneliness is defined by psychologists as a perceived discrepancy between desired and actual social relationships.”
I bet a lot of it has to do with the internet. Watching people on-line documenting going out with their friends and doing all sorts of stuff. While the lonely person is...sitting at home on the internet.
We didn’t have that influence growing up. Although I do recall sitting on the front steps with friends and trying to figure out what to do, with numerous suggestions squashed for some reason or another. Even worse when it was raining on a school day and your friends were stuck inside. “I can’t, I have homework, etc.”
It does get easier as one gets older.
bet a lot of it has to do with the internet.
Games for individual players, hours alone, and social interaction through a screen and a keyboard. People are more blunt in casually calling others idiots, and dating rejections take only seconds of interaction.
Feck yeah that’s lonely. GO OUTSIDE and play with a dog.
A lot of it has to do with the state being the replacement for parents. One of the central planks is kids being raised by the state so both parents can work.
If you are secure, because you had a good childhood, you don’t needs to the same degree if you are secure in your family.
Capt. Obvious!
[...] recall sitting on the front steps with friends and trying to figure out what to do, with numerous suggestions squashed for some reason or another. Even worse when it was raining on a school day and your friends were stuck inside. “I can’t, I have homework, etc.”
That isn't loneliness. That is "having friends" but "having only poor options to enjoy leisure time."
Regards,
Some folks use other people as a kind of self-medication. When they are around other people, they can ignore their own problems that need fixing. In other words, they use people as an excuse to procrastinate fixing themselves.
The pain these people define as "loneliness" is nothing more than the discomfort of being confronted by the truth about themselves.
Today’s generation is a people increasingly separated by their connectivity.