Loneliness and the single man/woman
He is in his early 50’s and still looks good. He is a jogger and a vegetarian. Once he set very high standards for himself and his partner. He wanted to marry the perfect partner. In Sibu, the practice of match-making still thrives but he turned down every one.
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So, it was a surprise when he turned up at my place today. He just opened up. In a broken voice he said, “I don’t jog as often as before. I feel tired. I am so….. lonely.” It was a cry for help.
The reason I write this post is because i want to open a forum for people to write about how they feel and how they cope with loneliness?
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.- Charles Caleb Colton
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.- Eric Hoffer
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. - Ernest Hemingway, “A Farewell To Arms”
It is very late at night now, so perhaps this is what drives my thoughts to this slant 
Beng Beng, it looks like all your readers are not lonely as there are no comments yet. Well, I feel that loneliness is any period of time which we feel that we needed someone at that very moment. We may have our own families and friends but on that particular point of time, we needed someone.
Maybe I know the meaning of loneliness….it is day..ppl are busy surrounded by family n colleagues…too bz to b lonely….on Xmas eve there will b a lot of lonely people.
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. - Ernest Hemingway, “A Farewell To Armsâ€
I tell you this truth, loneliness is not unbearable. A man becomes strong when he is lonely. To be alone is bliss.