general How do you cope with loneliness?

[ExplosionMare 18,073]

Watching funny YouTube videos and playing multiplayer online games

[Tao 7,917]

I have a cat but I also have good friends so it easy to deal with.

[Vefka 1,499]

It's not that bad usually, loneliness doesn't bother me

[ExplosionMare 18,073]

I watch the funny YouTubers I subscribe to if they have anything new uploaded cause they just laugh at their silly life stories and it just makes me wanna laugh along and feel less lonely.

[Flying Pencil 3,024]

I try to distract myself by watching videos and playing video games

[Tom Gallagher 33,591]

With the very obvious exception of here, I do feel lonely quite often.  If it wasn't for the fact that I'm on here, I think it would be far more agonising though. This is the only place I have friends. 

[Misty Shadow 7,937]

I have been ultra-introverted all my life, so coping with loneliness is just second nature to me. When I was really young, I had books and TV, when I was a little older, I had video games, and now that I'm an adult, I go to my video games, writing, art, and internet friends. 

[ded acc 317]

I got used to it.   I can't really do anything about it. 

[DubWolf 17,304]

When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world 

 

 

[Sonic Shimmer 4,133]

True happiness and contentment come from within, not from external sources.

[Northern Star 1,024]

I got used to it in kindergarten to be honest...

There are times where I do think "we'll go to town and do this" and then remember there is no "we"...and I've got too much other stuff to do...so distraction?

[Astralshy 27,089]

Well like I always cope with situations:  music and most important tea . As long as I have tea around me, I'm invincible

[Odyssey 5,717]

6 minutes ago, Astral Soul said:

tea

you are a man of sophistication. tea is the best solution to all of life's problems.

[Yuichan 29]

It's interesting seeing this pop up again today 

For me I guess... I'm used to it? Like, I like being alone, I prefer being alone in most cases. But of course loneliness hits everypony sometimes. Recently I felt lonely a lot. I don't have a lot of contact anymore with the most important people of my life and.. you get used to not speaking to them, even though it sounds extremely sad and unimaginable. But for me, we know why we chosen to not speak for a while. It was for everyones best and its not like we will never be like that again. If the right time comes, we may be together again, doing dumb shit like we did the last years. I think that's why I don't feel loneliness so much, since I understand and see that it is really hard for people to be/stay lonely. I'm 80% of my day alone, doing things alone. When I feel lonely, I just remember the fun I had when I wasn't instead of 80% just 50% lonely. I think the biggest problem for me personally is hitting up new People. Like how are you supposed to get new friends without feeling anxious all the time? I'll be completely honest, I didn't had many (good) long-term friendships, especially not in real life. I never found them necessary in particular as well. Like I said im fine alone, but making friends is kind of a great but also scary thing to do. Rarely does a friendship hold more than 3 months, or it is just somepony you hit up every few months, talk a bit and then not have any contact whatsoever again. But this might also be on me, since im also terrible at responding back . 

Anyways. Yeah in short, when I feel lonely, I remember good times. when remembering good times doesn't help, I remember how difficult and scary (but also wonderful and exciting, don't get me wrong) making new friends can be. Timidity and laziness  just beats loneliness for me. But that's also why I joined this Forum, I want to make new friendships. 

I'm sorry if I went a little bit off topic there. ;; Happy Heart and Hooves Day to whoever is reading this today. 

[They call me Loyalty 1,948]

Being alone makes me feel in company, while being in company makes feel alone. I am a little different. Never letting myself be influenced by pre-conceived notions from a society so dysfunctional and disconnected as it is the mainstream model of life. I look at the world, and I do not like what I see. Even in the best case scenarios. It is the amnesic paradigm.

There is a great variety of love, but the quality is lessened by the amnesic field located in the umbilical center of the human model. So, you have a world that is conditional and disconnected from itself. Looking for meaning outside itself, a system created based on the ignorance of oneness.
For those who can get past the obtrusive field located in the navel, the world makes no sense anymore. It is filled with illusion, and ignorance, and polarity, with blind people in conflict over nothing, looking for excuses to fill the void that the aforementioned construct creates inside themselves. Either it be company, or any other thing the world claims to provide. Only to lessen the effect of the said construct, constantly creating a sense meaninglessness inside themselves, boredom, loneliness, anger, as well as everything on the positive spectrum.

You see the "darker" and hypocritical aspect of society, government, religion, entertainment in a world of duality where everything has two faces. So, you cannot support the illusion, because it means to betray the original beyond the illusion. To exchange the unconditional for the conditional? The fear of the world that puts the world into motion does not move you anymore. But this is not the case for most, otherwise there would be no conflict or much experience in the world.

Especially, when you look someone in the eyes, and it looks like there are a hundred veils laid upon their sight. And there is no connection, because they lost touch, not with the self, but what is beyond the self. Do you understand? Probably not. But the thing is that wherever I look at, I see a creation disconnected from creation, basically a lie. And no matter how hard the world tries, I cannot lose track of who I really am. Meaning I cannot play the character of myself. Meaning, I do not feel alone. Because you cannot ever be alone in all truth. It is the illusion that makes you feel alone, which can grow and swallow you whole until you become like to a zombie, completely dependant on reality for that sense of "meaning", while growing emptier and emptier inside.

So, what I do when I feel alone? Well, instead of looking for company, I introspect and meditate on the obstruction that creates said disconnection increasing polarity and variety of experience. In the navel. Meaning, I become static, my life does not change because I do not need to change it. What is the point of anything, really? When you are in constant nirvana, there is nothing the world can provide, because if anything, the illusion of the world is based upon the concept of obstructing nirvana in one, so one looks outside of one for that sense of "meaning" that is nirvana. Which is a fallacy, despite increasing the variety of experience. Because everything one has been looking for, has been always inside of one. Everything is inside of one. Because one is all.

I mean, one could always strike a balance. But I was never one to compromise truth in the name of illusions. Truth is the most important thing in the world for me, which is why I interact so little with it, because it is full of lies. I am fake too. The whole thing is based on an illusion. But I do not entertain the fakeness all that much. So, when I look at the world and see how polarized and divided and ignorant people have become, it really strikes me. But it is their chosen experience anyway. So, everything is fine. I hope you find what you need.

[raykv423 1,689]

I'm usually fine with loneliness for some reason.  Idk why but maybe it's because the way I am. 
 

If I have a entire house to myself, I just would watch Netflix and eat some food, and/or get some rest and (if possible) take care of two dogs. 

I guess loneliness somehow relaxes me for some reason. 

[Fluttershyfan94 5,742]

I never feel lonely then again people typically approach me and try to get to know me so rarely I'm not talking to someone. That said however it is relaxing to me, solitude has certain healing abilities on the soul well given you do still have regular communication with other people that is.

[Rainbow Cloud 18,246]

Usually just distractions like watching TV, playing video games, posting on forums etc.

[Prospekt 11,018]

Music and and streaming shows or movies. It kept me sane last year during lockdowns and it's keeping me sane right now in the aftermath of a bad breakup. I also got to see my best friend in person for the first time in months and that helped a lot.

[Clawdeen 15,095]

Currently it’s been alcohol and music.

[dead account 2,711]

That's something I don't struggle with anymore, luckily. Why did I feel lonely in the past? Because I wanted something that I don't have (friends). Expectations. Hope. Even dreams and goals. All the things that remind me of what I don't have in life. Of course it will always make me feel bad when I focus on that. But once I discovered that true happiness comes from within (it's a choice), I also wasn't affected by loneliness anymore. And this is coming from a modern hermit, I have 0 friends in real life, I'm alone most of the time. But I call it solitude, which is a good thing.

[daviddaviddavid 776]

I don't really feel loneliness, even if I'm alone for extended periods of time - I once went an entire week without speaking to anybody and felt fine (although I'd probably struggle to sustain that for much longer now, not to mention the impracticalities of doing so). I like my own company and space