Loneliness is becoming an increasingly problem for many people, especially with elderly people. But the younger generation, divorced people, welfare recipients, single mothers, rural students, housewives are not excluded. So, if you have time today, just engage in a conversation with a person you might feel is lonely. Just for 5 minutes stop talking and listen to them, making them also feel valued. It helps a lot. One day it might happen that you feel this way. “For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.” (Ecclesiastes 4:10).

Loneliness is like a piano without keys,
like a violin without strings.
Loneliness is like a sanctuary without a congregation
or a choir where no one sings.
Loneliness is like a blade of grass
growing through a crack of cement.
Loneliness is like a camp ground
without a single tent.
Loneliness is like a mocking bird
that cannot sing a song.
Loneliness is a feeling
that one does not belong
Loneliness is like a pansy in a corn field
hidden where no one can see.
I know all there is to know about loneliness
because it lives inside of me.