Your Not Alone

The articles that we read in class, All the Lonely People, and A Meeting of Solitudes by Roger Ebert, and the article about Being"fully" human online by Ezra Klein really got me thinking. What is it that makes people feel lonely? Does it start from a young age? Like if your parents had some affect on you? Or not having many friends to talk to? Or could it be that you have too many material things and not enough love coming from one person? Or is it just inside your brain? I honestly think loneliness starts inside you. I know many people who always say that they are lonely. But is it really that they are truly lonely or is that they don't know how to come out of there shell and be social or try and break that "loneliness bubble" that they put themselves in.

 "So many of you were abused, physically beaten, bullied, called worthless, ostracized because you were gay, or the wrong color, or too tall or short or fat or thin or -- does it matter? The reasons for your mistreatment were not in yourself, but in the minds of those cruel ones hoping to hurt you. As a response, some of you have cut off, shut down, or isolated. From your lives you have learned the lesson to seek shelter."

This paragraph in all the lonely people tied in what I wanted to learn in this unit. I believe that this is like the question we were asking about what separates people from making decisions to push through hard things or just do nothing about them and worry for the rest of your life.  Some people that have gone through all these terrible things sit at home lonely and do nothing with their lives, but some push through it and become stronger. They don't let these things hurt them. One of my family's friends had a terrible childhood that no one should ever go through. But that person is the strongest, most kind-hearted person I have ever met. Yes, she told me that she did feel lonely when she was younger but she pushed through it and now she never feels lonely.

One of the first things I thought about when reading the Ezra Klein article was the movie Avatar. The main character is in a wheelchair, but when he goes into this other world he can do anything he wants. He's not in his wheelchair anymore, and can run, walk, jump and use his legs again. Jason Rowe, one of the people Klein writes about talks about how he can have most of his abilities back in his online games. He says how it’s his window to the world.