The True Meaning of Being Lonely

What does it mean to be alone? 

When your dog's soft fur delicately brushes past your cheek while you are in deep slumber, just to jump off your bed and leave. The only greeting you receive when you open your eyes is the sturdy ceiling, which only separates you from those above. The empty silhouettes of your furniture seem livelier than ever, as you entertain their figures into figurines, sooner or later, they become friends. They are very talkative, and a bit untrustworthy, but the words are from your racing mind. Is it when the early golden rays of the sun jump around you at 5 a.m.? The intruding wind making it hard for you to flip through your book on an empty beach, or adjust your hair for a picture. You have no help, however, you desire no one.

That is what we call solitude. It is equal to peace and harmony for some. It is also equal to isolation, which possibly involves a cry for company. 

Loneliness is the dull beat of the thumping pencil on a desk, its owner distracted by the groups of laughter surrounding him as he sits on his own. Sitting on a dinner table with a mother staring at her plate, a father at work and a sibling on their phone can feel alone, even if the dead turkey suddenly awakens to dance on the table. It can also be in solitude, when you fall into trouble, and have no one to help out. Drowning deep into your own hell, whilst your loneliness plants false philosophies in your head, the idea of having someone sounds just as hopeless as staying in your own miserable world.