The Shape of Loneliness

In societies and cultures where we are constantly surrounded by people, by images, by sensorial stimulation, etc. I ask why we, at times, still find ourselves in a despair of loneliness? With most of us living in cities where we can barely escape the noise of other voices, or the sight of other faces, i ask again, why we, at times, still find ourselves in a despair of loneliness? That which shapes our sense of being, is it outside, over there, or is it here, inside ourselves, fully able to be activated by our conscious effort?
So, the shape of loneliness could come in a variety of ways, from outside maybe, from within ourselves, by the flailing unknowns of the human psyche, by the over-penetration of societal superficiality, by the physical and emotional distance we may feel from that person who filled our sense of being so greatly that we almost forgot about being only powerfully with ourselves. But does the shape of loneliness have to appear at all in the image of ‘being’, or are we capable of freeing ourselves from that all-binding and limiting sense of ‘being alone’, when that is far from any true reality.
I propose a question that you must seek in yourself. But, i can mention my seeking of this question in myself.
Loneliness, or the sense of ‘being alone’, comes from a failure to recognize ourselves, who we are, what we are capable of, and what really surrounds us, magnificently. When we Stop the chaotic distractions of outward grappling for ‘things’, for ‘answers’, we may feel distant from the actual beauty of the World, but this distance itself was created by false, or weak, patterns of cognition. Isolation does exist, but only in its ability to spark the longing and striving for the infinity of being together, of being an essential part of something important and true. The one who is alone, who feels great distances from the ‘Normal’ rapid sleepy existing (and for who - we may ask?) is really on the verge of recognizing and becoming the great belonging. Belonging is the archetypal sense and transformation of knowing yourself as waking up from a sleepy ‘identification with products of what is Not Conscious’ - to having real participation in the creation of Your Life, of this shared reality.
When i feel and follow the shape of loneliness, when i throw it against the form of Pure Presence, it is easily out-shadowed by something in which it longs to become. Loneliness longs to become belonging, the one who feels totally alone, and accepts the depth of this natural Soul quality, is the most capable of developing the needed face of pure presence.
Societies of our misused caliber, tend to over indulge in the habitual formations of tendencies toward un-supported loneliness. But, I believe, our task is to support each other’s natural loneliness that comes in our such authentic efforts to discover who we are, but to recognize its potential for unfolding a greater strength, a greater freedom. Only through the authentic support systems we can create by means of our modern human potentialities can we access, surrender to, and transform the depths of loneliness to constantcys of even deeper ‘Being’.
I am alone, but only insofar as I let my distance become my only closeness. When, however, I change this far off thing, what seems to be in other worlds, into what my hands can grasp and feel, I begin belonging to its shape - I begin sculpting its shape Myself. There is no aloneness as long as we have the courage to begin shaping our lives.