When loneliness is the companion...

A very small percentage of the population is schizophrenic. However, a large percentage is lonely many-a-times. Just how difficult or different it feels to be a lonely person!
Loneliness is a bitter truth that we cannot digest. It is a companion always ready to be by your side when needed. When you are lonely you do not let go of everything. You simply slip away from everything. You are unable to decide what is real- the world outside you or your inner self. You are in communion with just your inner self. All outer connections fail and sometimes you wonder if you would be able to manage maintaining contact with the outer world anymore. What to say of forging newer contacts!
You detest it all the more because you have been indoctrinated against it. It is said that man is a social animal and when you do not feel the urge to socialize you feel that something has gone wrong with you.
Even if loneliness leads to depression we must recognize the presence of depression as much as we attest enough importance to ecstacy. We must not attach any stigma to it. It is just another feeling and we fall further into this because all the time we incriminate ourselves for falling into its trap. It is a vicious circle.
I read a post in an orkut forum and found it good:

"yes, i have been shifting sides with beautiful aloneness and damaging loneliness.. the thin line between these two things get tress passed often now.. more often that not i feel unexpressed and confined..

may be i have come far from the roots.. on one hand i have left touch with world, literally cutting myself from friends, extended family and my musical world too.. i am not playing my musical instrument for long now, and not meditating as well..

i can see myself pretty much answering my question in the above said lines.. but i guess i needed to express myself n needed a vent.. i did that by writing here, where i never see hopelessness i.e. world of osho..

thats true that i have filtered out of what i achieved so far with a conclusion to find something real.. but yes, i am not rich.. i have to work and work to a level which can support me to have time n space to meditate.. working can't be ruled out, so zorba the buddha path.. the funny thing is that i am not being zorba nor a buddha in these past couple of weeks.. "