By Daxx Bondoc
There are more than 6.7 billion people living on this planet right now. The planet has never been this populated. Yet this world have never experience so much loneliness like we do today.
The more the people there are the less we are supposed to be alone. But many of us are alone. And worse is many of us are lonely.
So what happened with the saying “The more the merrier?”
I believe that the cause of this plague of loneliness is our very own selfishness. We have solely focused everything towards ourselves and forgotten others.
We have chosen to disconnect ourselves to the rest of humanity when we placed ourselves as the center of the universe, the place of God.
Each one of us was made for love. We long to love and be loved. To be denied of love, is to be denied of one of our most basic need. The state or feeling of being unloved is what we often call loneliness. Loneliness is one of the worst poverty one can experience.
Because of our selfishness we have forgotten what real love is.
We have focused are actions on taking than on sharing. We have a world full of Go-Getters and hoarders. Because of our mentality of getting we forgot to give. Now everyone feels deprived and empty because no one is giving.
Unconditional love is scarce these days.
It is funny because our own greed has made us poor. We fill ourselves with worldly stuffs but feel empty in the inside. We jump from one party to the next only to go home feeling so more lonely the before. We pursued to get everything we want, only to realize that it does not cure our emptiness.
I believe to solution to loneliness is love. We must learn give ourselves to be filled. St. Francis of Assisi said, “It is in giving that we receive.”
The world needs the Go-Givers to make this lonely planet less lonely.
“Where there is no love, put love and you will draw out love.” – St John of the Cross
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