Loners or Lovers
2006-03-14 - 3:57 p.m.


Tuesday, 2006 March 14
Loners or Lovers
by J. Randal Matheny

Are you lonely? Do you ache for the intimacy of a
relationship? Do you yearn for a soul-mate who
understands you?

Then learn to love. Love intensely, selflessly,
wildly, freely, constantly.

Love is the key to your loneliness. Your love for
others. Not your expectation of or wish for
another's love.

Loneliness is, above all, an outcome of
selfishness.

Souls aplenty in this world need lovers. (I am not
speaking of sex here.)

For every one who loves, a thousand need love. The
loners outnumber the lovers.

The loner is the emotional hypochondriac, always
taking his temperature to discover why he is
unloved, unappreciated, forgotten.

Only the lover can forget self to extend
friendship, joy, peace, and hope to the loner.

If a loner cannot hear the invitation, the lover
does not pout or whine, but knocks on the next
loner's door.

The lover is a giver, the loner a consumer.

I doubt there are exceptions.

How to leave your loner's corner to launch the
lover's adventure?

Repent. Decide to change. Learn the language of
love. Find the best lover you've admired from afar
and be a shameless imitator, until the love
becomes your own.

Find a loner and start to work. Serve. Listen.
Study. Forgive. Praise.

Lovers step out of their glorious world to invade
the squalor of loneliness.

They get their hands dirty with lowly tasks.

They make converts of loners and turn them into
lovers like themselves.

A worthy mission for a world that knows little of
love and much of loneliness!

Are you a loner or a lover?

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