you'll never walk alone

Do you remember this old AIESEC (and not only) motto back from 1996? I think it was the theme of GTC '96 or something like that, some 10 years ago now...

I was reading this posting on Sathe's blog on loneliness and I seem to remember an article sent to smn on AI-social list (probably by Paris) back in the summer of 2002, on the lifestyle of your young professionals, who have travelled a lot, work in a foreign country, and in a lot of cases maintain a long-distance relationship, giving priority to their career and abusing their personal lives. I have felt like this in the past and I am sure I will feel like this again in the future (a little lost and a little lonely in my own closed circle) cos I look for the excitement and joy in other things in life (travel, work abroad, music), sometimes missing the whole point, which is building strong relationships of any kind.

It seems to me that I nowadays (also because of my one year at university and the current one in the army) that I have a huge inactivated personal network in Greece and abroad, and that's a big paradox. How can a person who has actually travelled in 25 countries around the world, met thousands of people, made friends, lived in 5 different cities and is constantly engaged in social activity actually feel lonely?

I guess the answer for my case lies on how satisfied I am with my own life, I don't know how it goes for other people around me. And of course on how close a contact I maintain with the people that matter to me, be this friends, family, girlfriend (well, none at the moment :p).

The motto is well spoken, but won't happen by itself. It needs, as everything else in life, initiative and effort.