I assumed everybody has the moment when they feel loneliness. The feeling of emptiness and unwanted sometimes can be disturbing. Especially, if this feeling suddenly comes during your productive time on the weekdays. This unpleasant emotional response also becomes one of my biggest obstacles during my life as a graduate student in Japan. Language barrier, cultural difference and also age gap become the primary factors that I am being isolated from other people.
Personally, I am an extrovert people. I do like to share my feeling with my surroundings. However, when it 's hard to express your emotions, here it comes the loneliness.
In this post, I would like to share with you guys on how I soothe my loneliness during my study in Japan.
1). Have a frequent communication with your family
The family will be the best place to share your feelings and to balance back your emotional state. Don’t close your heart to your family as they might be the best remedy to treat your loneliness.
2). Talk with your best friend”s.”
I like to share my thought with my best friends and sometimes I also seek for their opinion whenever I am stuck with something. The terms “ Friends are Forever” can describe how they might be a good place when you are in this unfavorable conditions. (I put the word “Good” as some of your friends might be not as good as you thought them to be. But, this is the truth that our friendship circle will also shrink by the time.
3). Seek for people with same interest
This might be a good alternative when you can move a little bit of your focus to think and share something with individuals with the same interest as yours. I would say something like group discussions, etc.
4). Do Your Hobbies
Killing your time might be another alternative to relief your loneliness. As you do your hobbies, you will tend to forget about the loneliness for a while.
5). Talk to your boyfriend or girlfriend.
I listed this as the fifth way because sometimes some couple is doing the long distance relationship. This may be quite painful for them as they will feel more unbalanced. However, some other couple can overcome it quite well as they have their secret weapon. That secret weapon, I will post it in another post. Hahaha.
So, in the nutshell, these are all of the ways on how I overcome my loneliness during my study in Japan. I think I am going to stay in Japan for another four years to continue my Doctorate education. Therefore, I will keep posting some other useful tips to stay alerted and keep motivated to live overseas.
