You Are Not Alone, I’m With You. Hold my hand.
Technology increases as the years go by, while our happiness decreases.
- 2010 People discovered that fell happy wasn’t that easy.
- 2020 loneliness knocked on the door and kept us in custody for two years
- 2023 People around the world say things like, “Feeling alive is exhausting.”
What next?
I don’t know, but we have to change.
We need to regain connection. We need to recover the joy. We need to grow the little hope we have.
That’s why I am writing this article.
First of all: You are not alone.
There are a lot of people around the globe with the same feeling of loneliness. There are a lot of people out there with the same fears. So there are many people with the same need for human connection that you have right now.
It happens to me too.
Some nights I wake up at 3 am in anguish and need a hug, but I look across the bed, and there is no one there: I’m alone, broken down to tears.
Maybe you don’t have anyone either, or you have someone you live with, but it’s like they’re not there because there’s no connection. Maybe you also need a hug at 3 am, and nobody gives it to you.
If that’s the case, I want to say that YOU ARE NOT ALONE, sweetheart, I feel your pain (and millions).
And although that may not seem comforting, it is a first step because at least now you know that what is happening to you is happening in real-time to millions worldwide.
And that has to bring you hope because you’ll find someone to give you that hug you need sooner or later. After all, that person needs it as much as you do.
Have hope; I have it.
Second: The longer you are indoors, the harder it is to go outside.
I don’t know what’s happened to you.
Maybe a wrong medical diagnosis, perhaps you are grieving the loss of a loved one, maybe your partner left you, maybe your dog died, and that dog was the closest thing you had to a friend (it happened to me, and it hurts a lot).
I know things have not been going well lately.
I know you feel less and less like getting out of bed daily. And it’s getting harder and harder to pretend to be well in front of everyone. I know that you live in a dream that has turned into a nightmare.
I know because I’ve been there before, and when I slip up, I fall back in.
But let me tell you something; no darkness lasts forever.
And you have so much light in your heart.
So get up and shine.
Third: Ask yourself the rights questions.
Sometimes we’re f*cked up because we’re trapped in a life that’s too small for us, like shoes that are too tight.
Why don’t you take your shoes off and feel that relief you crave?
Why don’t you take off your masks, shake off the expectations others have of you, and dare to be you?
Why don’t you chat with yourself and ask yourself what the f*ck you want to do with your life and do it?
Are you so afraid of being happy?
Are you so addicted to your grief?
Stop identifying with your victimhood and remedy it.
I know that sometimes it is necessary to build a comfort zone to take a break in the bad times.
But other times, you must burst the walls of that shelter and go out to get wet in the rain until the clouds pass and the sun comes out again.
Do it; I’ll be waiting for you on the other side, ready to get wet and dance with you under the storm.
I send you a big virtual hug (it’s 3 am).
A virtual hug
AG
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