Relationship is important, right?  Having people (even if only a few) who you trust to tell you the truth, hold you accountable, encourage you, rebuke you, genuinely want to be around you…and vice versa…is a desire (need?) that just about every person has.  I suppose it isn’t necessarily uncommon, though, for that yearning to be buried and suppressed by fears or hurts or perhaps myriad other feelings that take precedence in a person’s heart and life.  Isolation is sometimes self-inflicted.

But, sometimes, it’s not.

And it’s hard to be exhorted on the value and necessity of relationship, to try as much as you know how to form relationship, to make efforts that go against the grain of who you are – because who you are is just not good at relationship-building, to walk down every available road presented….and to still be alone.  It’s harder still to feel like others think it’s because you’re not trying.

If it were only that simple.