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Lonely Hearts Club - Loneliness is such a drag...But in the end, it's only you who can chase the blue away

One of the scariest spectres of growing old - especailly if u r single & female like me - is that of the lonely, crazy old spinster...Sometimes it scares me enough to contemplate getting hitched to any half-decent man I can find but, thankfully, sanity always prevails. Of course, loneliness isn't restricted to old or to singles, but chances of it descending on you increase with age, especially when you are unmarried.

When you are abled-bodied & employed, so many things prevent you from being lonely, Ther e are always colleagues to talk to, deadlines to meet & challenges to tackle.

But when such lifelines are taken away from you and you are staring at days on end with nothing to fill the hours, then what? Loneliness is easy to fight if you have a family, for even if relations aren't all harmonious, at least there is a network of support you can rely on - or just people with whom you can chat.
Friends are like buoy, but up to a point, for while you may have plenty of them when you're in your prime, who's to tell that most won'tbe of the fair-weather kind?......

posted by Ling @ 9:14 pm