Like other pivotal human experiences (love, grief, ambition) loneliness is not innately good or bad. Beyond good or bad-loneliness is a human experience What if solitude isn’t all bad? The experience of feeling alone doesn’t always have to be hopeless. Reminiscing on nights out dancing until the wee hours over coffee with old friends.
Lamenting the ‘stuck’ feeling of working from home with your colleagues on a rare day in the office. Posting a COVID-positive test on your Instagram stories. Ironically, in 2022 it’s the isolation that binds us together. We’re alienated from ourselves, each other, and the communities that offer us a sense of belonging. This has never been clearer than during the pandemic.
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But what if we’re not considering the full picture? Our spiritual and cultural keystones-films, literature, and music-are often born out of isolation. It’s been linked to a shorter life span, mental health issues, and low productivity. Loneliness, as a phenomenon, holds a bad reputation. What if there was a life-changing prize at the bottom of the well of loneliness?
In collaboration with CHAT, Thriving in Transition is a series dealing with how we make meaning of our individual experiences and emotions through finding solace in the support of others, no matter how daunting it can be to reach out.Īll photographs by Zac Tan for RICE Media. Transitions are tough for sure, but how do we learn to ride the wave of immense change and loneliness? The discordant state of the world has intensified a global rise in distress over mental health among youth - a direct ramification from a period of constant flux.
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