Do you find yourself lonely from time to time? I often hear friends, both married and single, say they experience times when they feel lonely….even when they are around people. <\/p>\n
I suspect we all feel that way from time to time. Rob Thomas sings a song called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lonely No More\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in which he contemplates loneliness and says he simply does not like it anymore. <\/p>\n
It can be, at it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worse, devastating…sometimes down right depressing. <\/p>\n
There are a number of my friends that are widows and widowers. Then, there are others who chose to get out of unhealthy relationships, including marriages, that are far better off – even if they are by themselves. Recent studies say loneliness can make us live shorter and less fulfilled lives. <\/p>\n
This is my take on loneliness. <\/p>\n
It happens to us all from time to time. Sometimes, it happens due to death. Sometimes due to unhealthy relationships. It just happens. <\/p>\n
When I find myself feeling that way, I find others to be around. I call someone and go out. I call someone just to talk. Sometimes I turn to my faith. I just do SOMETHING and I think that often helps us get to our next place…just doing something different.<\/p>\n
My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you seldom find yourself lonely. If you do, make a call, go somewhere healthy with a friend, take up a new hobby, join a group, enjoy a movie, a play, volunteer, just walk….just do something so you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find yourself in a rut. <\/p>\n ~ Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you find yourself lonely from time to time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}