You cannot see or recognize them on the street. Many of them are looking happy or sad or unhappy or are smiling or not. How stupid! How could they look different in fact? Is loneliness a malady?
In fact, it is not about loneliness at all. Or being alone. Not even single. But about the inability to share something, to communicate with the others. Some do not have about what to talk. Others do not know how to do it. And, probably, there are other situations too.
And, if the answer at my stupid - pretented to be rhetoric - previous question at the end of the first paragraph is, naturally "not", a short experience in the world of chatrooms and social networking site might make you think in a very different way. Icq or facebook or the dating sites of various kinds are full of various kind of single, less single, in relationship, married, career-oriented etc. men and women looking for whatever "hot" sensations they could get. The same on the sites designed to offer various professional opportunities - no LinkedIn yet, or maybe I was not yet at the right moment there. Plus: political frustrations of various kinds - what about being in a dating chat room and addressed with issues related to the Middle East, with a very serious and passionate emphasis?
By far, the most sincere conversation I ever had in these chatrooms was the following one:
He: hi, how are you?
Me: fine, thank you, what about you?
He: not so good, I am sick?
Me:?
He: I have schizophrenia
Me: Sorry to hear this...
He: Yes, for a couple of years already. Is not easy.
Me: Yes, I know...
He: I have to take medicine all the time, drop school, I am staying most part of the time home, trying to talk with other people. Very hard. And now, I have to leave, cannot continue the conversation.
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