Prewriting Activities #2, Pg. 435

Loneliness

• Loneliness is a depressed feeling of worthlessness and looks like a person who is secluded from any emotional contact from others.
• It can make a person withdraw socially when they are at their lowest point. It can occur when someone has moved far away and is in a new area where they don't know many people.
• Moving to another state for college, where you have no relatives or familiar faces around you can cause you to feel loneliness. If a beloved family member that you're especially close to dies, you may feel an intense loneliness.
• Loneliness can take many forms, such as causing someone to feel so miserable that they contemplate suicide or cause them to simply withdraw from communicating with others.
• Loneliness can start off small by becoming quiet and reserved, then limited communication with others, no longer going outside and shutting yourself in at home, until finally the person may consider suicide as a last resort to stop their hurt feelings.
• Loneliness is like being depressed, feeling miserable, not accepted by others and is unlike happiness, fullfillment, and joyful.
• Secluding yourself and not talking to people about your uneasy feelings can lead you to become loney.