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by Chinmayh
4046 days ago
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"How are you not dead?"
And what would you have me do about it - Kill myself. Not really a solution. is it? Most rich people will break if they are forced to live in poverty. Most people take what they have for granted. Rarely realizing, how lucky they are. |
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I've gone through a long period (several years) of almost total loneliness, where my only regular contact was with my mom (and she has a brain disability from a stroke, rendering her mostly unable to respond other than "yes" and "no").
A lot of that isolation came from not feeling able to fit in, even with the friends I already had (who I drifted away from). I didn't have anybody at all to call up to hang out with, and nobody called me.
It wasn't 14 years, but I just want you to know you're not alone. I'm still pretty isolated (way more than is OK for most people---even a bit too isolated for myself), but it's not as bad as it was, it's totally bearable without causing me to be depressed. (In fact, being lonely does not cause depression. Depression causes being lonely, though.)
As somebody else said, the "forever alone"[1] type of person is probably actually WAY more common than people think. In fact, I find it a tiny bit comforting that you are out there.
[1] However, that concept is invalid. It isn't determined that a person will be forever alone unless they voluntarily choose to make it so and never make an effort to meet people or allow people to meet them.