It's still got
that lonely feeling of exploration, those dense and secret - filled alien caves, and that killer soundtrack.
Not exact matches
We can
feel more connected and less
lonely, and that correlates with long - term measures
of happiness and health.
In the workplace, many employees — and half
of CEOs — report
feeling lonely in their roles.
At a time
of unprecedented connectedness, more people say they
feel lonely than ever before.
Today, over 40 %
of adults in America report
feeling lonely, and research suggests that the real number may well be higher.
Raj Peter Bhakta launched WhistlePig whiskey in the middle
of a recession, and there were some cold,
lonely nights where he
felt alone in his mission.
Research shows that people who
feel lonely can
feel chronically threatened and are at an increased risk
of death.
A new study has found that nearly half
of all Americans
feel lonely — with young people in particular experiencing the brunt on the pain.
Using measurements calculated by a mix
of statements and a formula, researchers found that anyone with a score between 20 and 80
feel lonely.
Studies have found that people who report
feeling lonely — regardless
of the actual size
of their network — are more likely to experience worse symptoms when they're sick.
Those who are employed, for example, are less
lonely than students and the unemployed, the latter
of whom have the highest
feelings of loneliness.
The index, which surveyed over 20,000 U.S. adults, found that nearly half
of survey respondents reported sometimes or always
feeling alone (46 percent) or left out (47 percent) and younger generations
feel much
lonelier than older ones.
Even introverts don't like to
feel lonely; this may seem like the science
of the blazingly obvious, but it bears repeating.
There are a lot
of benefits to
feeling lonely just like there are a lot
of benefits to physical pain, but if one can avoid chronic pain you want to do that.
The percentage
of Americans who responded that they regularly or frequently
felt lonely was between 11 % and 20 % in the 1970s and 1980s [the percentage varied depending on the study].
The lack
of natural, inherent social learning is what can make online training and remote work
feel isolating or
lonely.
Of course, it's possible that the cause - and - effect is actually the other way around — people who
feel lonely may purposefully use more social media in an attempt to
feel less isolated.
Our recent Harvard Business Review article, Coworking Is not About Workspace - It's About
Feeling Less
Lonely, covers research we conducted on the social side
of coworking.
We can
feel more connected and less
lonely, and that correlates with long term measures
of happiness and health.
Thrown back on our own resources we
feel betrayed,
lonely, and isolated We become homo economicus and are stripped
of our self - imposed illusions about the future.
But he
feels a lot less
lonely after his party voted to place a deep - green manifesto at the heart
of its new soul - searching exercise.
During college, I remember a few semesters when I hit a long stretch
of strictly online services, and I just started to
feel disconnected and
lonely in my spiritual walk.
I'm so torn because I don't want to leave the people I care about at the other churches, but yet I
feel lonely, worthless, and completely broken at the current church I'm at because
of the drama.
In his book on the experiences
of Roman Catholic clergy, The First Five Years
of the Priesthood, Hoge claimed that one
of the most important findings
of his research was that priests left the ministry because they «
felt lonely and unappreciated.»
Thus Mary and I
felt rescued when we were invited to join the staff
of Grace Church, New York City, by FitzSimons Allison, who was then Rector there and who himself had been a
lonely voice in the Episcopal seminaries.
Those who
feel lonely and lost and long forgotten, get to
feel the fullness
of the only Love who has ever loved them to death, and back to the realest life, the Love who woos and heals wounds, who whispers Beloved and Bride, whose passion proves even we are worthy
of being loved beyond this world.
Man has every right to be anxious about his fate so long as he
feels himself to be lost and
lonely in the midst
of the mass
of created things.
Do you ever hear stories
of other people
feeling lonely after leaving the church?
I know that tonight there are those
of you who are working and those
of you who are resting, those
of you who are celebrating and those
of you who are suffering, those
of you who are sick and those
of you who are tending the sick, those
of you who just want a few hours
of quiet, and those
of you who
feel lonely, those
of you who will stain your pillows with tears, and those
of you who will sleep with smiles on your faces....
Most important, he helped her become aware
of and work through her confused,
lonely, rebellious
feelings which provided fuel for the behavior.
I hate how we can be around so many people and have so many good things in our lives, but
feel lonely for one particular type
of companionship.
My father, both in word and deed, ensured that my concept
of a heavenly Father was one that made me
feel loved and cherished, and my mother instilled in me a sense
of compassion for all people, especially the needy, the broken, and the
lonely.
As Heisel points out, the media, especially television, provide companionship to the elderly, particularly those living alone or simply
feeling lonely as a result
of old age's inevitable losses.
I remember the
lonely, isolate
feeling of leaving the church and loosing all supposed friends.
A friend once said, «don't
feel bad about being on the fringes, lots
of the most interesting people are there»... which is true, but it is still rather
lonely, as there doesn't seem to be that many out here at times.
Take them one at a time, spending as much time as you need to discuss thoroughly the issues and
feelings that arise: «The ideas and issues which excite me most are...;» «The things that are most worth living for right now are...;» «I
feel the most joy (pain, hope,
lonely, together) when...;» «What I really believe about God is...;» «I
feel closest to (most distant from) God when...;» «I get spiritually high when...;» «The beliefs that mean the most to me now are...;» «The beliefs from my childhood which no longer make sense are...;» «Life has the least (the most) meaning for me when...;» «I
feel closest to you (most distant from you) spiritually when...;» «The way I really
feel about the church is...;» «I'd like to do the following, to enjoy more spiritual sharing...;» «To enrich the spiritual life
of our family, I'd like to..
Please help I'm ten and I have a long beautiful life ahead
of me with the lord but I
feel like I have blasphemed the holy spirit and I'm scared my future will be
lonely and my lord and savior won't be in it.
He was overwhelmed with woe over his own unworthiness, his life
of bourgeois privilege even during this ordeal into which he had led the city's black community, and finally about the superficiality
of his «inherited» call into the ministry, although he «had never
felt an experience with God in the way that you must... if you're going to walk the
lonely paths
of this life.»
But this new freedom, as the historian John Diggins has pointed out, created problems
of its own: «The more free the individual
felt himself to be, the more isolated and
lonely he actually became until he craved to forsake his solitude in order to surrender his self to the new invisible authority
of society itself.»
A lot
of us seem to
feel lonely, and think a relationship (even a one - night relationship) will fill in the gaps.
Clashes within the family or the work situation that cause resentment, hard
feelings and then severance; anonymity and rootlessness in an overcrowded but
lonely world; uncertainty as to the future and even as to whether there will be a future — these elements in our society rob many
of what ought to be the rich satisfactions
of living.
When asked if they
felt lonely at Christmas, almost half
of the respondents replied either «yes» or «sometimes».
Putting thousands
of kilometers on his unreliable car, he was kept poor and
lonely by the compelling fascination he
felt for Romanesque, but the faith which the art so profoundly expressed he did not share.
By choosing to survive, to endure, and to be courageous in your vulnerability to share so openly your unique experience makes your a good and wise man, touching the lives
of many who have ever
felt a similar personal turmoil and
lonely struggle.
Can you be a saint if God
feels as distant from you as He does from an atheist — if your experience
of God is an experience
of lonely «darkness»?
In other words, we may want long - term companionship, but we will swipe on a potential we wouldn't otherwise be interested in, merely because
of their mutual swipe and because we're
feeling lonely.
It talks about plastic people under plastic steeples and am I the only one who
feels like this because everyone around me looks so good... I've always thought that pastoring has got to be one
of the
loneliest of jobs.
allah, buddah, jehovah, etc., must be DEVASTATED, HEART - BROKEN,
LONELY, AND
FEELING USELESS, since those they've created have abandoned the lands they were created from and sought self - satisfaction throughout the world
of man.
So either the marriage experiences stress and breaks up, or it experiences stress and stays together, achieving some kind
of truce that involves one spouse or the other capitulating in some areas, but which leaves both parties
feeling lonely and unhappy.
Al - Anon participation will bring the wife out
of her
lonely, frightened shell and help her to a
feeling - level acceptance
of her husband's illness.