"That one little phrase, Your real friends—so quaint, so charmingly mothering—perfectly encapsulates the anxieties that social media have produced: the fears that Facebook is interfering with our real friendships, distancing us from each other, making us lonelier; and that social networking might be spreading the very isolation it seemed designed to conquer."
"The researchers also found that lonely people are inclined to spend more time on Facebook: “One of the most noteworthy findings,” they wrote, “was the tendency for neurotic and lonely individuals to spend greater amounts of time on Facebook per day than non-lonely individuals."
"Sherry Turkle, a professor of computer culture at MIT who in 1995 published the digital-positive analysis Life on the Screen, is much more skeptical about the effects of online society in her 2011 book, Alone Together: “These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time."
"I am 19 years old and my father was separated with my mother and I hate him because he was gone away with another lady before I was born and right now I was away from my family and for my career and studies ... even though I have enough friends but they are not too close and I feel like some people are trying to avoid me but I don’t know why. even though I am good and honest with them and some friends being busy in their works and they are too far away from me & i am single i don't have girl friend and my profession is information technology but unluckily I don’t get some good friends in my office because of age factor and now presently I am feeling alone and feeling like depressed and I don’t know with whom I can also share that and I had enough confidence that I can achieve my goals but now I am feeling lacking of self confidence because of a loneliness and being depressed ... I do see some people being friends only for money & I hate that kind of people"
"now i feel that my life is over because my children are grown and i am alone not married and nothing that i thought i was going to have from life and that i dreamed of has ever happened other than my kids but at the same time i never gave a minute thought to that they would grow up one day and leave me too."
Light
"Many of the struggles that surround singleness are my struggles too: tossing up between living on my own (and being lonely and possibly broke) or living with flatmates (and regularly having to find and get used to new ones); turning up to things on my own all the time; feeling the unvoiced wonderings of friends, who think I’m too fussy, or gay, or weird; feeling surprised and disappointed that I’m not married by now, and wondering what’s wrong with me."
"If God sent his own Son to die that horrific death in your place so that he can be in relationship with you, and if he did this while you were still a sinner (Rom 5:6-11), then maybe you don’t need to doubt his love for you."
http://matthiasmedia.com/briefing/2013/08/satans-lies-about-singleness/
"Yes, it matters that Jesus loves me. But, to me right now, what matters more is that Jesus loves the lonely parts of me — and He wants me to step out into the world from those places — as I am too.
And so, I whisper this to you, as well. Don’t wait until there is no more loneliness. We don’t have to be alone before the brokenness recedes."
"So often I think that I should put aside that brokenness in terms of my relationship with God, or at least push it aside during times when I focus more on God, so I appreciate so much what you say here about how we don t need to do that, that Jesus wants us to come to Him as we are."
"I never would have thought this then, but what really came to mind is how much I miss a part of that healing journey not the painful and hard stuff but the part where I knew how desperately I needed Jesus."
http://www.faithbarista.com/2013/02/where-do-you-go-when-you-are-lonely/
"Were not these lonely seasons of prayer in the solitary places, in the wilderness and in the mountain, while yet the world was sleeping, - were they not the times when into the ear of the eternal Father, the only sympathizer and companion He had, Jesus poured His supplications with strong crying and tears?"
(The Loneliness of Christ by A. P. Adams)
http://www.maranatha-page.com/loneliness.html
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