What is loneliness and where are its origins? I have a friend of mine who is incredibly lonely at the moment…Recently his life fell apart or so he feels…But then again, if you look at his life closely, even when everything seemed to be fine, his loneliness, masking itself as a constant search for who he is and what is his ultimate purpose in life, was always throbbing through every hole in his soul. At first, it was just trying to surface and talk to anyone who will listen…But then, since no one was interested and no one was listening, it turned into this enormous void in his soul…Somehow, loneliness multiplied by time, turned out to be emptiness…When did this happen? Why? And how do you get back to being content, complete, whole?.. And, coming back to our original question, what is loneliness? If it is just emptiness, then how come it feels so overwhelming at times, so intense? How can this black whole in your soul be so consuming: it is like a Bermuda Triangle – all you can do is just watch your life disappear in its blackness and coldness? How can something that should not be there – that nothingness – be all that you know at this moment? Loneliness…At times, we desire you – so we can run away from the rest of the World and be at peace. And then when we you enter our lives, we want to get rid of you, we want the whole World to be “normal” again, we want to come back to what we were running from…Maybe, the way to deal with you, loneliness, is to listen to you at your first knock…Stop…Enjoy this moment of soul searching…And then, being wiser and more intelligent after meeting with you, loneliness, continue our journey through this life, in which we are destined to be lonely…