You Are Not Alone

story and characters. One of my favorite songs from the musical is “No One is Alone,” which is sung by Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, the Baker, and Jack during a difficult time. Everyone has had an instance in their life where they feel alone and as if they are having to battle it by themselves. Overall, the song’s purpose is to comfort Little Red Riding Hood and Jack because they just lost their moms and now feel alone because they were all they had. However, Cinderella and the Baker are…

Did you know being lonely and being alone are very different? Being lonely is that unstoppable, dull, and mostly permanent feeling that follows you all day everyday no matter what your doing while being alone is temporary. It's when you do something by yourself for your happiness not someone else's. Most people think being alone is a bad thing because you isolate yourself from the world. The truth is it's beneficial for you when you have time to think of yourself, behaviour, and decisions. It…

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson When was the last time you took a…

being alone” (Sienna Miller) Being alone can be both beneficial and adverse the benefits of being alone, you get more done that you need to you get quiet and most importantly no drama. The adverse effects of being alone include depression not a very active social life and people who are alone a lot tend to be more likely to do drugs. Society views people who are alone a lot only with the bad things about it depression drugs basically an unhealthy lifestyle. But being alone does not affect you as…

POETRY ANALYSIS Alone by Edgar Allan Poe and Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Do you know what is worse than being alone? It is to feel lonely even though you are surrounded by people. Everyone has felt lonely at some point in their life but not all overcome it. Both of my chosen poems, Alone by Edgar Allan Poe and Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, demonstrate the themes of loneliness and despair. Alone reflects back on the writers past and childhood in a melancholy tone and captures the…

Why You Should Travel Solo: 5 Compelling Reasons Travelling alone is a daunting task to many people especially to women. The instant thought that most of you get when you hear the idea of solo travel is that it is risky and not fun either. The chances of you having a safe and fun trip depend on how cautious you are and the places you choose to visit. However, the amazing benefits which could come out it are overlooked because of the fear. Solo travelers often make new friends during the trip as…

Spend Time Alone With God “And Jacob was left alone” (Genesis 32:24a) Every moment may not be your super moment. You are not equally strong all day long. Thus you need to know who, when and where to run to draw strength especially when you are weak and or in need. Who are you alone with most of the time? Jacob was left alone with God. Yes, alone with God to shape his destiny – to decide on issues of concern that cannot be altered by any current of opposition. There is always a time to be alone;…

Being alone is not always a bad state of being for a person. Loneliness causes people to have time for themselves. The word loneliness is defined as “ affected with, characterized by, or causing a depressing feeling of being alone” (“Loneliness”). However, Not everyone who is alone is lonely. Society should look at the word loneliness in a positive way because in reality loneliness is not a sad nor miserable state of being, it is relaxation to oneself. Loneliness is not being physically alone. …

Honbab is a Korean neologism for “eating alone.” In Korea, eating alone in the school cafeteria is a taboo. As a result of communalism, being alone in Korea does not mean that you are having your own time – it means you are a social misfit. If you enter the cafeteria alone, even teachers will ask you whether something has happened to you. No one tells you the charm of solitude; rather, everyone forces you to belong somewhere – so when you become alone, you have no guide to follow. This manual is…

by "...Weep and you weep alone" in which one would change their mind about the tone being happy. As she was inspired to write this poem by the unfortunate widow grieving for her lost, Ella Wheeler Wilcox realized that when you grief you could be surrounded by hundreds of people and yet you are still alone. Being alone could mean many things, you could be alone physically as in you are in a deserted place and are the only living creature in a 100-mile radius. You could mean alone in a mental…