Lonely

Drudge reports tonight that scientists have shown that being lonely increases a person's chance of dying young.

That may be so, but I would argue that a humane society would applaud all, both individual-livers and group-livers, able to associate and disassociate at will without social or legal persecution and discrimination.

When we evolve as a civilization to this point, be alone or being grouped to various degrees, will still go on, but loneliness largely will disappear. For when people are free to live as they wish, they feel warm, emotionally connected and reinforced. To be connected but independent, then being alone is without sting.

To individuate is to be a principled, developed loner, but when working directly for God, there is no loneliness that matters. There is only blessings and joy.