Description

Let us try to describe this Inner Void feeling:

• You feel a lack of sense in your live.
• You have to carry on and on but there is no fun anymore.
• Everything is painted black (or at least a very foggy grey).
• It is raining outside.
• Your telephone never rings (whether or not you are staring at it for hours).
• Nobody loves you.

This is only the beginning, the description of a very extreme phase could be found in form of a poem in appendix A.

Although everybody knows this feeling, there are only a few theories about its reasons. The best one could be found in [3]. It states that every human being has an urge of being accepted just as it is. But in our society every child learns from the very beginning of its live that it is only accepted when it fulfills the claims of its surrounding. So we are trying to please the people we belong to, hoping we will be loved for that. But we can only succeed for a little while, always in fear of a failure.

And the feeling of an Inner Void means that we are longing for being loved just as we are, with all our little faults and advantages. We want to fit into the world, but we don't.