Everyone has felt lonely at least once in their life. If you are anything like most people in life, you've been there and done that, and don't care to do it again. Why be lonely when you can be happy? Just like overcooked vegetables, a second helping of loneliness is nothing to be desired. In fact, it falls short of being tolerable, and sometimes leave us on the edge.
So the question isn’t that we get lonely, but why we do. Let's look through a few lenses to understand the why behind this feeling so many of us put forth an effort to avoid.
Lens one: Popular culture is become more and more influence for what I have observed in the world in the time period that we are currently in. There are more people in the world now then there were five …show more content…
Truthfully, loneliness has been around almost as long as dirt has, this even includes the ancient time.
Often times we forget that people who lived a long time ago have stories too, and are more than just a few significant events on a time line.
If we look at their lives though the lens of our popular culture, we see that they have more reason to be lonely than not to be.
Lets be honest, living in desserts, traveling a long ways to get anywhere, and no music is not the greatest recipe to live a lone-less life. This might be true for our context of life, but when we look at loneliness in the culture of the times, we see that their struggle with it was as real as ours is today.
Where would we be able to find accounts of loneliness that occurred in the ancient times? The best place to look is the Bible.
Believe it or not, the Bible is filled with a lot of individuals whose lives yield a story that includes loneliness. Just to name a few, lonely people in the bible range from lowly maid servants like Hagar, to men such as Job. Yes each of these accounts have varying degrees of the outer loneliness, but maybe they are not all that different when it comes down to
So the question isn’t that we get lonely, but why we do. Let's look through a few lenses to understand the why behind this feeling so many of us put forth an effort to avoid.
Lens one: Popular culture is become more and more influence for what I have observed in the world in the time period that we are currently in. There are more people in the world now then there were five …show more content…
Truthfully, loneliness has been around almost as long as dirt has, this even includes the ancient time.
Often times we forget that people who lived a long time ago have stories too, and are more than just a few significant events on a time line.
If we look at their lives though the lens of our popular culture, we see that they have more reason to be lonely than not to be.
Lets be honest, living in desserts, traveling a long ways to get anywhere, and no music is not the greatest recipe to live a lone-less life. This might be true for our context of life, but when we look at loneliness in the culture of the times, we see that their struggle with it was as real as ours is today.
Where would we be able to find accounts of loneliness that occurred in the ancient times? The best place to look is the Bible.
Believe it or not, the Bible is filled with a lot of individuals whose lives yield a story that includes loneliness. Just to name a few, lonely people in the bible range from lowly maid servants like Hagar, to men such as Job. Yes each of these accounts have varying degrees of the outer loneliness, but maybe they are not all that different when it comes down to