Loneliness

Loneliness is an emotion. Sometimes we feel this particular emotion if we lack social contact in our lives yet other times no matter how many friends we have or how many social gatherings we attend, we still feel it. No one knows what triggers an emotional feeling, often times these emotions have no rational explanation to them. Physical pain comes from which ever part of our body that was injured sending a signal to the brain that it receives, processes and proceeds to send another series of signals back to where that injury occurred telling it that it hurts. If emotional pain where like this then what exactly sends a signal to the brain that it is "injured" and what does it send its signal back to? Now, various circumstances can make us feel the emotional pain we call loneliness. One can be the lack of social relationships, something that could be easily remedied if a person where to stop alienating themselves from the world and make these needed social relationships. The question then becomes what makes some people choose to inflict this emotion upon themselves as opposed to going out into the world and trying to make these needed relationships. Could it be a part of the brain malfunctioning or functioning differently? Then there is in my opinion the more difficult of the two. The times when you do not lack these essential social relationships yet still feel this emotion. This could be due to the fact that even though there are many people around you which you frequently socialize with none of them get through the walls we erect around us as a defense mechanism against emotional pain, only to cause a completely different but just as painful emotional hurt. So then it would be a matter of which pain would be easier to live with for the individual. Then maybe it's a lack of companionship as opposed to social relationships.