The irony of this subject’s title when I first thought of it is, if you replaced the letter “n” with “v”, would the subsequent story be more readily at hand or mind?
Have you ever been in a lonely place in a crowd? Aloneness can be desirable when you need peace and quiet. Then there are those contemplative times and places like the September day when you go halfway up the pass to the glorious splendor of a grove of golden aspens bordering the rushing creek where once upon a time they scattered your loved ones’ ashes.
This lonely place belongs to everyone at one time or another and then maybe it is not so lonely. It is God’s place, if you might be a deist, or perhaps the realm of Mother Nature, whenever you’re there alone with your memories and thoughts, and of course, those of the “creator” of your choice.
Here’s the point, you are never alone or lonely when you’re able to get your head and heart in the right place, He/She is always there, just open your eyes and heart.
There is another lonely place too. Think of a great big box or room so big it has no visible boundaries, not even a little closet to crawl into. It is so lonely in there, except you’re in this space with all of the smallest personal to largest imagined or real horrors of how we have totally messed up our life with miserable choices or world shattering war and corruption.
Strange bedfellows for a lonely place, and facing these apparitions simply reinforces how lonely and maybe helpless it all is. If this has all the hallmarks of depression, you’re well on your way to finding space in this vast lonely place. Is there any way out?
Should you sometime find yourself pondering all of this, then that will make two of us in this lonely place and then we won’t have to be lonely.
© 11 Aug 2014
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