{"id":1453,"date":"2016-07-20T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2018-06-26T10:05:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T17:05:33","slug":"why-do-we-feel-lonely-in-an-over-connected-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/why-do-we-feel-lonely-in-an-over-connected-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Feel Lonely in an Over-Connected World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Anna LeMind\u00a0of The Mind Unleashed<\/p>\n<p>The world has never been so connected as it is now. Communication and internet technologies have made it possible to stay in touch with anyone no matter where they live. Today, it\u2019s probably impossible to find a person who doesn\u2019t use social networks and instant messaging apps, which have become an integral part of our life. Many people can\u2019t even imagine their daily routine without online communication and feel incomplete if they don\u2019t chat with their friends and don\u2019t see their updates in the Facebook feed st least once a day. <strong>We are basically never alone and yet, we are lonelier than ever.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not just a claim \u2013 <strong>studies show that the number of people who feel lonely is constantly increasing.<\/strong>For example, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalhealth.org.uk\/publications\/the-lonely-society\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> by the Mental Health Foundation found that one out of ten people in the UK often feels lonely while 48% of the respondents believe that modern people are getting more and more lonely.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that <strong>the feeling of loneliness is a real epidemic of our society<\/strong>. But why do we feel this way while numerous ways of communication with other human beings are available to us at any minute of every day? To answer the question the title of the article asks, first of all, let\u2019s figure out <strong>what loneliness actually is<\/strong>. While the dictionary suggests that it\u2019s a state of being alone paired with the feelings of sadness and isolation, loneliness is far more complex than that.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been in a company of people you didn\u2019t have much in common with? Or maybe in a company of strangers\/acquaintances who were good friends with each other and didn\u2019t pay much attention to you? If you have been in similar situations, you will agree that in those times, you were <strong>feeling lonely without being alone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is what loneliness really is \u2013 <strong>a lack of connection and understanding, no matter if you are alone or not<\/strong>. In fact, this feeling may be even more intense when you are among people you don\u2019t resonate with rather than when you are by yourself. Let me cite <strong>Robin Williams<\/strong> here: \u201c<em>I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It\u2019s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themindunleashed.org\/2016\/07\/feel-lonely-in-an-over-connected-world.html\">http:\/\/themindunleashed.org\/2016\/07\/feel-lonely-in-an-over-connected-world.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Anna LeMind\u00a0of The Mind Unleashed The world has never been so connected as it is now. Communication and internet technologies have made it possible to stay in touch with anyone no matter where they live. Today, it\u2019s probably impossible to find a person who doesn\u2019t use social networks and instant messaging apps, which have become&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-personalgrowthandsuccess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5416,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/5416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}