{"id":30497,"date":"2019-10-03T22:14:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T03:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30497"},"modified":"2019-10-03T22:14:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T03:14:33","slug":"briefly-being-lonely-has-little-to-do-with-whether-people-are-around-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30497","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Being lonely has little to do with whether people are around us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve been with people for most of this day, but I feel lonely tonight. I\u2019ve had things on my mind for the last few days that I feel the strong need to talk about. I need someone to share my thoughts with \u2014 someone who\u2019s interested in ideas and how they affect us. Someone who gets excited to discover new things and can find joy in seeing new ways those things might change our lives. I feel lonely tonight because I painfully remember what it feels like to have that \u2014 and I\u2019m craving that sort of connection. I miss having someone I can call and say, \u201cI\u2019ve been reading something and it\u2019s sparked some thoughts I want to share with you.\u201d<\/em> Those sorts of conversations have lasted for hours for me in the past \u2014 or for thousands of words if it\u2019s an exchange of mail \u2014 and it feels wrong that there is nobody who wants to hear such things from me tonight. I used to think being lonely was about being alone, but I understand now it\u2019s a longing for one particular person. The loneliest place to be when you need one person is in a crowd composed of people who cannot be who you need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been with people for most of this day, but I feel lonely tonight. I\u2019ve had things on my mind for the last few days that I feel the strong need to talk about. I need someone to share my thoughts with \u2014 someone who\u2019s interested in ideas and how they affect us. Someone who Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7VT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30499,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30497\/revisions\/30499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}