The Lonely Human

It is virtually impossible for something to exist all by its own. Whenever and wherever something is, there is another thing. Everything appears deeply intertwined with everything else, one way or another. In other words, there is no single thing at any given place or time, but a network of things - of everything. This general phenomena of relatedness has hierarchies as well. Although everything is connected to everything else at some level, there are different grades of relations between or among things. Whether the relationship between a given set of things is strong, weak, or apparently non-existent depends on the time and place the observation is made, as well as on the distance between the observer and the observable phenomenon. For instance,  an average earthling may find little or no commonality between a polar bear and a camel. Yet, an alien observing the Earth from deep space could think of little or no difference between a polar bear and a camel. If the same alien was looking at our planet hundreds of millions of years ago when these two animals had a common ancestor, the question of resemblance might have sounded incomprehensible, if not unimportant.

We all are related. We all are made up of essentially the same sort of stuff. Indeed, we all are stardusts resonating at a fundamentally similar harmonic frequency in the majestic depth of the boundless universe. Why then do we feel alone, alienated, abandoned, or detached? How does our pervasive sense of individuality, purpose, goal, and possession arise? Or, is our feeling of separation and loneliness part of our greater oneness with the rest of the universe, a phenomena we should neither dislike nor fight against?