Solitude – a path to God or the fulfillment of Satan's prayer? The biblical verse that it is not good for man to be alone applies primarily to marriage, but nevertheless, it can and should be understood more broadly. Being alone and having no one often means that they love no one, living within themselves and for themselves. Those who love people and know how to cherish them, as a rule, even if alone in this life, do not suffer from loneliness, because the whole world is before them and they feel one with this world, created by God. But when a person is self-absorbed and oblivious to those around them, they become truly painfully lonely. Of course, it also happens that a person is truly attentive to others, has many loved ones and friends, but cannot find a spouse and suffers. Such loneliness can hardly be called good. But the fact is that God has a plan for each person, without exception. And this plan didn't emerge simultaneously with this person's birth into the world, but existed primordially, even before the creation of the universe. This is the essence of the eternity of each of us: not only will I always be, but in a sense I always was—present in God's plan. Therefore, a person's torment from the absence of something or someone in their life occurs because they are trying to live contrary to God's plan for them. There is God's will, which gives us the best opportunity we could have in this life. And if we don't receive something, it's one of two things: either God has some other plan for us, or there is something within us that prevents God from giving us what we desire and ask for...