Kodokushi
The phenomenon dubbed “lonely death” or kodokushi (孤独死) in Japanese is a growing occurrence in Japan. Persons who lived alone, die alone. Their bodies lie in places undiscovered for long periods of time, and because of this, thick, dark stains shaped like a human body (the residue of liquids excreted by a decomposing corpse) form are left where the body once lay. [1][2] Kodokushi has become a nationwide problem in Japan.
Source: Wikipedia
FindMeInTheShadow: Forever Alone...
And now no one wants me.
This is constantly on my mind. When I was young I was friends with so many people. When they found their circle of friends, I would join in and then leave again to join another. I was not a typical student with their 1 or 2 friends, I had several, which meant several…
Fay Petrichor: The thing about being alone is, it’s fine until you become lonely....
The thing about being alone is, it’s fine until you become lonely. Until you notice that you are lonely. That you would die for an embrace, a gentle touch, to feel real again. It’s like you’ve retreated to a world of your own, and have ceased to exist in reality. Loneliness is never any fun. She…
"The only reason I like going to bed is so I can make up stories in my head, which makes my brain think they are actually real."
- (via jo3da)
this life: i feel like i have no friends since graduating college…everyone moved...
i feel like i have no friends since graduating college…everyone moved away from me and the people who stayed i really dont see or talk to anymore..how am i supposed to make new friends when i work alone except for once a month office meetings in seattle? It used to be so easy to make new “friends”…
So incredibly grateful for my strong mother and strong brother. Filled with love :)
"We are the pioneers
of our own histories, drawn
to the horizon as if we waited just for us
the way the young are drawn
to the future, the old to the past."
- Linda Pastan, from “Driving West” (via the-final-sentence)
(Source: growing-orbits, via the-final-sentence)
