Loneliness-----a recurring theme today?-----Imagine------

How can it be that today, with our development of

 mass media and communication, that I am strongly aware

of the theme of loneliness recurring  so often?

This doesn't seem to apply only to those people living alone,

it touches the lives of old and young, rich and poor,

sick and healthy.Recently a youngish friend, living a seemingly

actively social life said to me with feeling---'but we are all lonely

aren't we?'

Is this because in the midst of an increasingly materialistic, bureacratic

de-personalised society we are losing the ability to

trust each other, to reach out wih a real caring and

sharing, a warmth and love that lets each other feel safe,

secure, needed and cherished.Is there too much surface

feeling, too much superficial caring,  too much convincing

ourselves that we are loving and living realistically,

too much manipulation of what is true,

too much looking after ourselves?

How tragic if our world develops in this way!

For me, the only way through this is to constantly be aware,

-to try each day to reach out  wih  genuine warmth

unconditionally,to feel deeply that we all need this

real sense of belonging with each other;

to nurture trust, appreciating that it is a quality so fundamental

to a breaking down of fear, suspicion, isolation, and loneliness

that there always has to be sincerity and truth  in all that

is said and done.----Not an easy way sometimes, but I believe

it to be the only true way.

Mo.