Loneliness

May 5, 2022. No. 235

A blink in time, just a fraction of eternity —like a micro point in human history— is the signal that reaches you on each page. Who knows how long a gesture, an ephemeral message from one mortal, can last in the existence of another? Sometimes, years of life are erased by a slap of oblivion; other times, a brief impression is eternalized —like a mental frame that affection treasures forever. Which of the fates will run these strokes? I cannot predict it, nor covet it. Puts the soul on paper, who is satisfied with a touch of good in your days, and only hopes that a taste of deep honey remains on your lips if by some necessity or chance, one day you name, as in passing

Someone said: loneliness is the price of freedom and this brings me the paradox of the company or the lack of it. How many things can accompany the human being? I know of those who walk alone in the crowd and those who have felt a people with them from the darkness of a prison, those who prefer the crowd and the noise and those who love lonely beaches. Everything revolves around the spirit. You can enjoy the solitude of a room to write verses, think about someone you love, or for concentrated reading. But they are short periods, the exchange with others, the physical company, is always healthy and necessary.

Popular wisdom states: it is better to be alone than in bad company and this is directed towards the selective level that you can have when it comes to breaking desolation. If you hang out with someone with a crooked soul, or who limits your dreams because they don't know how to look cleanly, you'll feel —even if they're hanging from your arm— that you're anti-accompanied, which is beyond all loneliness. If, on the other hand, you find the love of another being who understands you and elevates your soul, you will feel his company even wandering alone through the confines of a jungle.

Who cares about cultivating himself, reading, and inquiring about dissimilar topics, has greater possibilities of making affinity with more people, because he has a wide range of interests, which allows him to start a dialogue that arouses curiosity in any interlocutor. If your knowable spectrum is limited, you can leave a monologue to each similar person who approaches you to talk. Whoever you bore you are leaving alone. If, on the other hand, you have knowledge but a cloudy soul, you can liven up a chat a while longer, you start to leave a bad impression, because of the approaches you give to the topics, and you also go out of tune in the spirit of the other. In these cases, it is worth saying that it is not others who have left you alone but yourself.

Of course, life is not hypotheses and sometimes loneliness assails us even though we haven't looked for it. Someone wrote: I am lonely when I look for a hand and only find fists, and this is one of the evils that prevail in our days. Vouchers as you have, as an appraiser, make people seek—and be sought—for status or monetary power; relationships are not based on the exchange of passions, pains, and hopes, but on the basis of calculation: then, no matter how many acquaintances you have, you will not break loneliness: deep down they are business associates, not friends.