All my life, I believe I have equated loneliness with unhappiness. I have come to realize that I have introduced error into this calculation. They are not equal, and in many ways, they are antithetical and completely inverse in their polarity. Loneliness stems from the absence of something — companionship, interaction, discourse and the like. Unlike unhappiness which incubates from the presence of something — the emotions driven from someone else, the stress we allow into our lives, the feelings we let creep into our mentality and so on. I now realize that I have been lonely many times but still happy during those moments. Whereas, I have been in a crowded room with people all around interacting and communing – any yet have been filled with unhappiness. The secret is to find someone who can illicit the peace and comfort of “alone” while in a moment, or life, “together”.
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