| Loneliness is
particularly a modern pheno- menon. The more materially advanced a country is, the higher
the percentage of lonely people; the greater the city, the more the loneliness of more
people. The story of Mrs. Violet Forno is heartrending; it is Incredible, yet true. Mrs.
Forno, a resident of London, went to the same movie theater, sat in the same seat
and watched the same film twice each day for five days a week. When asked why she went to
films 50 often, she replied with resignation: "There is really not very much else to
do. Nobody ever visits me, and I hardly know anyone.
So you see, it’s the films." This was in June 1966. In almost the same month of
the same year a sixty-three year old man in Seattle expressed his loneliness in these
words travelled all over the country to run away from my troubles, but it wasn’t any
good like my flowers and lawn and a nice home... But not alone. The days are long, the
night are long, tell me. What hope is there for one like me?" |
