Member-only story

You can’t use people when you’re lonely

The Ordinary Man
4 min readSep 10, 2024

--

Being lonely is a horrible feeling, one of the worst. Loneliness is so bad that it can kill you. But that doesn’t mean that you can treat other people like shit. Just because you’re hurt doesn’t give you the right to hurt other people, although I’m sure they aren’t thinking about it that way.

Some people choose to hurt others in the name of making themselves feel better, but all that does in the long term is make them feel more lonely as they push people away. Getting negative feedback from people due to your toxic behaviour is only more likely to make you feel more alone.

Some people are lonely for a good reason, but they don’t have the self-awareness to see it. They’re not always bad people though.

Don’t only think about yourself

Some people are alone because they only think about themselves. They use people to make themselves feel good and put them out by asking them to do some awkward and uncomfortable things.

They’re alone so it doesn’t matter how other people are feeling, and it doesn’t matter that when they don’t need this person anymore, they’ll dump them. Then if they need them again they’ll try and pick things up as if they didn’t just fuck them over.

--

--

No responses yet