Loneliness is a modern malady that accompanies urbanization. Fear of violence, prompting people to barricade themselves behind double-bolted doors, intensifies loneliness in cities. More people live alone, bowl alone, travel alone, eat alone. Not everyone who lives alone is lonely, nor does being with others automatically eliminate loneliness. But men who live alone are prone to loneliness.
Healing begins by recognizing that loneliness is part of the human condition.
Each of us is in the world without props. In this sense, my loneliness, like my nakedness, describes being in God's presence. Because we walk the last journey of life alone, we are most aware of this existential loneliness in our dying. Stripped of all pretense, naked before God, I'm aware of the universe's vastness and the loneliness of being human. We are all solitary souls before God.