A Letter To The Lonely Soul…

To The Lonely Soul,

Loneliness in any way, any capacity, is terrible. But I want to talk to the one who is intimate with it. I want to talk to the one who knows how loud the silence can be. The one who knows what it's like to be covered in the sticky sweat of the night with only the voice in your head to keep you company. I want to talk to you.

It’s suffocating, like something more than your lungs are struggling to breathe, I know. It’s because more than your lungs are struggling to breathe. We sometimes believe that all we need is food, water, and shelter but our needs are greater. We also need safety, love, connection, adornment, family, expression, and more.

Loneliness takes us away from all of those things, and the longer you stay there, the sticker it gets, the harder it is to leave. The more it destroys and rids you of you.

I think that’s one of the hardest things about loneliness, the belief that you cannot leave. 

I believed that for a long time, and you may be very hesitant to believe that you can leave it, too. But you can.

Loneliness is as much of a place as it is a feeling. And we get stuck sometimes because we can’t see beyond it and sometimes we get twisted up in it. Because we often forget it’s not a home but simply a place in between. 

Unfortunately, the in-between often finds us in our most tired, and continuing on when you can’t see the end feels pointless.

But like any place, I believe you can leave it if you keep walking. 

Don’t get me wrong, it is one of the hardest things in the world to keep walking. But you are the only one who can keep walking, and you owe it to yourself to choose something better than the land of the lonely.

And let me tell you a little secret about the land of the lonely.

Even here you are not alone. Surrounding you are millions of other souls in the in-between of life, finding their way. We simply cannot see each other.

But the ones who keep walking will.

Love, 

Another lonely soul.