Journal entry

I am surrounded by people.  At work, going out to the grocery store, taking kids to play ball.  I have two kids that love me.  Why do I feel so lonely?  Am I living in a self-imposed type of exile?  
Loneliness, the state of "feeling lonely," describes a human state or feeling involving isolation, or the feeling of disconnection with others, etc. Often accompanied by a sense of yearning for connection. Usually manifests through hopes of romantic redemption in the arms of another.

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–adjective,-li·er, -li·est.
1.
affected with, characterized by, or causing a depressing feeling of being alone; lonesome.

2.
destitute of sympathetic or friendly companionship, intercourse, support, etc.: a lonely exile.

3.
lone; solitary; without company; companionless.

4.
remote from places of human habitation; desolate; unfrequented; bleak: a lonely road.
 
Pretty well sums up how I am feeling....