How can you tell me you're lonely?

A large proportion of the population, at one time or another, experience a major crisis in their lives.
Some people are unlucky enough to encounter frequent life-threatening situations as an everyday part of their lives.

It is a paradox that the more privileged and fortunate certain individuals are, the more they are convinced that the circumstances experienced in their lives have a greater significance than other people's.

Every small setback becomes a major drama. Oblivious of other people's genuine suffering, they will bang on about how hard done by, and how unlucky they are.

These people frequently have all the advantages of a very privileged and secure life and probably have no concept of what true suffering really is. The very fact that they have never had to truggle seems to make them immune to the possibility that in the general scheme of things, their perceived mini dramas are nothing more than exaggerated creations of their own limited imaginations. It is requently the case that they have over-indulged themselves and are now reaping the results of their own excesses.

It is a paradox that the more materialistically wealthy a person is the more they will believe that their problems have, somehow, greater significance. The obvious examples are excessively wealthy filmstars and musical superstar divas.

So how can you tell me you're lonely, and say for you that the sun don't shine? But no doubt you will, oh yes, you most certainly will.

How can you tell me you're lonely?

This work was inspired by the song, 'Streets of London'
written by Ralph McTell.