This is the case at least most of the time. Like many, this can be crippling, but one cannot just lie down and let it be all said and done. Yet, I know many more lonely while engaged, married and all sorts of stops on the way from where I currently reside and where they must be. I am disengaged, but no more lonely then those who have coupled in many ways. Do we all really want to be a half, or is this just what we've been conditioned to believe by our society, government and religions? Like most creatures in the animal kingdom, we were probably not born with this notion, yet we are taught it and its benefits since birth. This is just as soon as man can inject whatever poison it chooses to. So say this is my opportunity to describe the difference between my being alone and being lonely. I have no deep connection with any particular person right now, but I am not longing for one with every breath I take either. It may ultimately be better to be connected for one reason or the other, but I think it is mainly the grass being greener that is pushing us there and making some who are alone, lonely. The thing is, nowadays there are ways of someone who is alone to accomplish great things either in reality or in their own microcosm. Music will never leave me and I will love her to the end of time, beyond the grave and into the afterlife, whatever The possibilities are truly endless and once we realize this, we will never really be lonely again.