All Comments on 'How To Make it Through Alone'

Most 'How To' are on the humorous side. This is actually pretty helpful. We've all been there. If you have helped one person today it was worth posting. Your poems at the end add a nice touch. As I said, very nicely done.

DG Hear

I spend a lot of time alone and I thought your advice was good and correct. Have done a few of them myself. Thanks for sharing

I would add to your list to have a pet. Not only is it comforting to have the pet there with you but the responsibility for looking out for the dog, cat, whatever is a distraction from ones personal problems/moods.

Very thoughtful

Regards, Jack

Your words are very insightful. I am coming off a fantastic success and am feeling the corresponding "low". Your words came at the right time.

Blessings!

Sad and bittersweet... and good advice. HUGS.

Lit stories get a lot of reads and this will help a lot of people, ML. Good work.

You have written a very timely instruction on how to deal with loneliness. Everyone at one time or the other needs Someone who cares enough to have a little heart to heart with them. Sending this out into the void is a beautiful act of faith that will hopefully reap rewards to all those who need it. Thank you.

Duddle146

A purposeful worthwhile effort authoress - nice work.<P>

An animals love is unconditional and especially a dogs!

Lynn,<break>

Now that I've read everything I have to say, once again, that you had nothing to worry about. It came from the heart and as one whose hand you held not too long ago; I know it makes a world of difference to have someone there to listen to you.<break>

I knew you were a great person when you offered to listen, I found out you were a great listener when you kept listening and pushing me to find my own answers and now I <b>know</b> that you're a great writer.<break>

Let's just hope that this offering will be followed by many more.

Very moving piece. It's very sad to think how many people out there live lives of quiet desperation and lonliness. It's especially important to reach out to those people when we are made aware of them, and hope someone is there for us when we need someone.

I have never commented before but I really appreciate your words. Positive forces in the world seem so few and far between but they are there and I am thankful for that.

Mike B.

of the travails of loneliness. Heartfelt and well done. Kudos, Lynn.

Thanks for sharing it, I am sure this how-to is now out there reaching others that will be touched by its message.

Maharat

A thoughtful and comforting piece. Thank you.

I've already done some of the things you listed in the past, but seeing them put into words is wonderful. Thanks again. May there be light in each of our own darknesses, no matter how small.

It was a very thoughtful, helpful, and compelling piece. Thanks, Lynn.

Probably one of the most meaningful entry in this year's crop of entries. Well done!

My daughter went to Build-A-Bear with my cousin and made me a lamb. They have a 'build-a-sound' that allows you to record your own voice. She recorded her voice telling me that she loved me. When I'm very low I can hug that special lamb and hear her voice over and over again.

Helpful information. Good luck! ~Minx

... is the hardest and yet the simplest of journeys... Guru's spend their life explaining the path, the way, lifes route... and yet in us all is the key- and at our weakest, lowest ebb we are scintilatingly close to unlocking the truth... Christ it hurts, it burns it kicks and screams but the release, releif in the realisation that our own strength, as this wonderful author has written here, can raise us up to battle and "smile" & infuse all around us with the joy of life- I love your train of How to thought, thank you MistressLynn

Although, to be honest, it can't always be followed.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and all my friends seem to be on his side...thank you for writing this, it helped.

Thanks for your words of courage.

Even when we are by ourselves we are not alone.

There are a lot of other people by themselves too. :-)

Keepin' it

Shiny

There are few as healing words as those spoken by one who has felt the pain.

There may not be one word that brings about the change in my or your life, but there are many that make a difference.

This was really good, MistressLynn. I tried some of the things you mentioned and it did work a bit. Really good ideas. Thanks for them.

sweet :)

Until I was 50, tried to do it myself because wasn't admitting it was to hard was some kind of failure. Then it got too hard and I had no choice. Turning to (prescribed) drugs made it esier to get ahead of the depression. Then when I was more put together I had a lot more success in fighting it off. The final stage has been to minimize the drugs required for me NOT to start down the spiral. Life is so much nicer when the sun comes out more, people smile more, and my problems are not all life threatening :)

Now at 70 my life is more serene, not so many problems seem to come my way, an my relationship are more loving. (Why could I not understand sooner that I did not have to do it alone :)

Thank you so much for writing this article. I hope you don't mind, but I printed a copy of it to stick in my writing journal.