with the highest world population in all of history why do we feel more lonely then ever?why so many on prozac

Answer 1

People don't take Prozac because they feel alone or are lonely. They take it for a chemical imbalance in the brain. Many people go through phases of depression, and I think a lot of it is due to the media constantly telling us to be afraid of everything. News teasers tell us that "a popular new toy is dangerous and your child could be playing with it right now! Tune in at 9:00 to find out if this is in your home." Our world has become pretty worked up over the past few years.

Answer 2

Everything has gotten so commercialized, that we have forgotten how to entertain our self. When all of a sudden a time comes and we find our self truly alone, we find it uncomfortable. It's actually kind of strange, you don't know what to do with yourself. Especially people who come from big families, or had room mates, or have been married for a long while. It's an adjustment, and it's real hard for a lot of people. It's at this time we need to first get acquainted with our self. How secure are we really with our self? Do we need to face fears that maybe were hidden before? Why are we really lonely? AND work from there! Start to fill those voids with positive actions from within you. Be your own best friend! Treat yourself to special things, push yourself while trying to take extra care of YOU!!! Be consistent and don't forget to reward yourself by passing your happiness on to others when they visit!! Life isn't always a bowl of cherries, sometimes there is a sour grape thrown in!!!!

Answer 3

Because everyone is trying to be better or have more than the next person, and they worrier there selfs into a frenzzy,wondreing how they are going to pay for what they have
They never have time for a social life or love life,that is why the
divorce rate is so high, and spousal abuse,child abuse.and Drug
abuse are at such an alarming rate.

Answer 4

People are more self centered, less patience. They either don't want or afraid of commited relationships. In old times, people are more giving, have more patience to allow the relationship to grow and mature. These days everything is McDonald mentality, fast, quick and be done with. Therefore more people are running from one relationship to another. No patience to watch the relationshiop to grow and flower. They plant a seed and let it died.

Answer 5

Without the other we don't know who we are, we lose our identity. The other becomes a mirror and we can see our faces in it. Without the other we are suddenly thrown to ourselves.

We are greatly inconvenienced because we don't know who we are when we are alone. With the other, things are clear, defined. We know the name, we know the form, we know the person — Hindu, Christian, Indian, American — there are some ways to define the other How to define yourself?

Deep down there is an abyss... undefinable emptiness. You start merging into that. It creates fear. You become frightened.

You want to rush towards the other. The other helps you to remain out. When there is nobody you are simply left with your emptiness.

Nobody wants to be alone. The greatest fear in the world is to be left alone. People do a thousand and one things just not to be left alone. You imitate your neighbours so you are just like them.

You lose your individuality, you lose your uniqueness, you just become imitators, because otherwise, you will be left alone.

You become part of a crowd, a church, an organisation. Somehow you want to merge with a crowd where you can feel at ease, so that you are not alone.

To be alone is really the greatest miracle. That means now you don't belong to any church or organisation, you don't belong to any theology or ideology — socialist, communist, fascist, Hindu, Christian, Jain, Buddhist — you don't belong, you simply are.

And you have learnt how to love your indefinable, ineffable reality. You have come to know how to be with yourself.

Loneliness is absence of the other>>
Loneliness is absence of the other. Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive. It is an overflowing presence.

You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody.

If the whole world disappears this zen master will not miss anything; he will be as happy as ever. He will love that tremendous emptiness, this pure infinity.

He will not miss anything because he has arrived home. He knows that he himself is enough unto himself.

This does not mean that a man who has become enlightened and has come home does not live with others. In fact, only he is capable of being with others.

Because he is capable of being with himself he becomes capable of being with others. If you are not capable of being with yourself, how can you be capable of being with others?

A man who loves his aloneness is capable of love, and a man who feels loneliness is incapable of love. A man who is happy with himself is full of love, flowing.

He does not need anybody's love, hence he can give. When you are in need how can you give? You are a beggar. And when you can give, much love comes towards you.

It is a natural response. The first lesson of love is to learn how to be alone. Try it, to have the feel. Just
sit alone sometimes. That's what meditation is all about — just sitting alone, doing nothing.

If you start feeling lonely then there is something missing in your being, then you have not been able yet to understand who you are.

Then go deeper into this loneliness until you come to a layer when suddenly loneliness transforms itself into aloneness. Loneliness is the negative aspect of aloneness.

If you go deeper into it one moment is bound to come when suddenly you will start feeling the positive aspect of it. Because both aspects are always together.

Answer 6

We don't have to talk to each other any more face to face. We have computers, faxes, cell-phones, i-pods, televisions, telephones, etc.

We can "know" people for years and never even have to meet them.

Answer 7

because so many of us stoped to care about each others,we get could and soon we'l freeze.