The life in a Metropolis can make you feeling lonely, giving you a sense of sadness and desolation. After a intense work you go home and you are alone. In a big city is more difficult to buil solide and close relationships and even if you think to have a lots of friends most of them will be just people for going out.
Living in a small village can be different but it is only because less attractions gather the people together and push them to share most experiences.
Someone belives that "feeling-alone" is the effect from the human progress and the evolution. More people move around and live alone than ever, contributing to greater separation from caring friends and family. In one of his articles, Robin Loyod said that about one in five Americans is lonely, a gnawing emotional state that is a patchwork of feeling unhappy, stressed out, friendless and hostile.
According to a study of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the loneliness as human condition is contagious. It "spread across time. It travel through people. Insted of a germ, it's trasmitted throught our behaviours." said John Cacioppo, a neuroscientist and psychologist at the University of Chicago.
We can classify the loneliness like a social desease developed from the human evolution.
Despite this state, in the past lots of people feel alone anyway and they put their feeling in their art or in their literature. Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Shopenhauer, Albert Einstein,Vincent van Gogh and Friederich Nietzche are just some exemples.
Finally it is not just a a big city problem but it's something that is connaturate to human. It is a paradox because the human being is social and relations are the most important link with the world. At the same time loneliness is part of you. Where you are you can experience it. It's not a matter for metropolis or small town, a large family or single life.
It's just our nature and we have to cope with it.
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