[aageneral] A Cure for Loneliness

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A CURE FOR LONELINESS

People do strange things! I heard of a man who occasionally swallowed
coins -- enough to make him sick! Which, as it turns out, was the
whole idea. When asked why he made himself sick swallowing coins, he
replied that he enjoyed the affection and
attention the staff showed him in the hospital!

He was lonely. Many of us are lonely. When asked, "What is life's
heaviest burden?" one lonely old man answered, "To have nothing to
carry."

A cure for loneliness is to carry the burden of another. Get involved
with their problems. Visit others who are also lonely. Listen to
someone else's troubles. Find people who need you and do some­thing
for them. Carrying another's burden will lighten the load of your
loneliness.

I know a woman who gave each person in her family a golden angel lapel
pin one Christmas. "Wear it on your collar or shoulder," she said, "to
remind you that your guardian angel is always looking over your
shoulder."

Her brother noticed his pin had a broken wing. He held up his damaged
angel and quipped, "It figures. My guardian angel is missing a wing.
She can't even take care of herself!"

Two years later he died of cancer. As I thought of the pain his family
must be feel­ing, I was struck with how his broken angel is like each
of us. We each hurt. We all experience loss. At times we are lonely.
Like that angel, we are each broken in some way, even if our damage is
interior and in­visible to others.

But we're each like his broken angel in an­other way, too. As it has
been so beautifully said, "We are all like angels with just one wing.
We can only fly by embracing each other." You see, we will heal best
by hanging on to one another. And we will overcome
lone­liness best by putting an arm around someone else and going it
with them.

This family embraced each other. And as they carried one another's
burdens, their own loads were lightened. It's a solution for
loneliness -- and a formula for happiness.
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Steve Goodier Publisher@LifeSupportSystem.com is a professional
speaker, consultant and author of numerous books. Visit his site for
more information, or to sign up for his FREE newsletter of Life, Love
and Laughter at http://LifeSupportSystem.com.

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