HOW DO WE INDENTIFY LONELINESS IN OURSELVES AND IN OTHERS?

"even in a crowd you can feel profoudly lonely. And this is why the world is filled with so many people who seemingly have it all. they are famous or wealthy or they are powerful. but what really matters is gge quality of the connections that we have. that whenever we have connections with people where we feel like we can not be ourselves,that actually separates us further and further from other people. And service,it turns out is one of the greatest antidotes to loneliness that we have,we reaffirm to ourselves that we have value to bring to the world. and it doesn't have to be going to a soup kitchen. simply by being fully present and listening to someone. we can give them something extraordinarily powerful. And so the journey to become more connected tp ourselves to connect more deeply with other people is not a journey to somehow transform ourselves into something we are not. It's really a journey to return to who we intrinsically are, being centered at our best,and experiencing our greatest meaning and fulfillment when we're giving and receiving that love " —— Dr.Murthy the surgeon general