Alone

For those of you who feel like you're alone, you're not.  That does not negate the feeling of loneliness that you have.  Even in that feeling, you're not alone.  Because everybody else feels it too.
We all need to connect.  This feeling is the evidence that we are all one.  Yet we are divided.  Separated.  Not connected in a functional way.  
What is the remedy for this empty, longing feeling?  
Unity.
We mask this need with relationships that don't work.  Connections that are not genuine.  Networks that don't function, and serve no lasting purpose.... which leaves us still empty, still longing.
Forced, unnatural connections end up like Frankenstein monsters.
The only way to find natural, functioning, purposeful connections is to abandon our agendas, our presumptions, our preconceived notions about what is right.
Let go.  
This causes a rush of emotions and feelings.  These seem overwhelming and unbearable.
This is unpleasant.  Like strong medicine.  It's bitter.  It just doesn't seem right.  It doesn't seem like a solution.  But compare this bitter pill to your current state of loneliness...  
You are not alone.
Much of the despair you're feeling right now is not your own.  You feel the despair of all the other lonely souls around you.  We are one.
In ways that our biological brains do not, cannot, grasp.
There is a greater purpose.  And most of us avoid this like the plague, convinced that we will have to sacrifice all the good and pleasurable things we so desire in order to "do the right thing".  This creates struggle.  Inner turmoil.  We all just want to be happy!
We all cry inside for peace.  For true love.  For genuine connections.
Yet they always seem to allude us.
There is a greater purpose.  Bigger than the sum of our individuality.  
The root source of the word "individual" is 'us' - 'divided'.  In - divi -dual.
In reality we are one.  As individuals, we are divided. "Dual" - two-sided, separate from the whole.
We fear being alone.... so we remain alone.
There is a universal matrix.  A plan.  A direction in which this thing is headed.  There is the yin and there is the yang.  There is the positive and there is the negative.  What makes the human being unique is that we have the power to choose which stream of this matrix to follow.  No other living creatures have this high privilege.
What feels like a sacrifice to our individuality is actually a shedding of the attachments that pull us into the negative flow.  To put it simply, this "sacrifice" is for our own good.  It is a choice, and it is a hard one.  Because it is scary and therefore unpleasant.
To let go of what we think we know, to embrace a higher dimension of life, equates us with the natural flow of the universe.
Think about it.... Are you really going to win if you resist that flow...?   
If you let go, where would life take you?  If you stopped trying to force square pegs into round holes....  
The choice is yours.
These are wise truths.  Beautiful words.  And yet, even I cannot connect to them.  Alone. I feel the pull of the yin and the yang equally.  I am perplexed.  I am an anomaly.  I don't fit anywhere.  The left side of my brain is constantly waging war with the right side of my brain.  And I am caught in the middle.  I do not understand.
And so I'm alone.
Do you feel me?