The body of Yvette Vickers lay unnoticed and unmissed in her California home for what some have speculated to be several months<\/em> beyond the moment of her passing.\u00a0 The B-movie actress and former Playboy Playmate, perhaps best known for her role in the cult classic film \u201cAttack of the 50-Foot Woman,\u201d not only died alone, but her physical presence was not missed by even one of the over 7 billion<\/i> people that currently occupy our planet for an unimaginable amount of time.\u00a0 In spite of the fact that people at one point actually paid money to view her naked body in Playboy magazine and people paid money to be entertained by her roles in a few low-budget films, not one single person checked on her, asked about her, looked for her; and most disappointing of all, not one person expressed love to her.<\/p>\n How can something like this happen?\u00a0 How is it even possible for someone\u2019s life to end virtually unseen, unheard, and unloved?\u00a0\u00a0 And perhaps the bigger question is:\u00a0 What can we do to change that?<\/p>\n As disturbing as this particular story may be, the fact that millions of human beings on our planet today live in isolation and loneliness is perhaps even more disturbing.\u00a0 The statistics surrounding an ever-increasing population contrasted against the staggering numbers of people moving through their days alone<\/i> seems absurd and completely implausible.\u00a0 A logical mind would struggle to understand such a contradiction in facts, let alone understand how an entire population of people could continue to do very little, if anything, about it.<\/p>\n What piece of the puzzle are we missing?<\/p>\n At what turn did \u00a0Humanity get so horribly off course?<\/p>\n While a percentage of our population is benefiting from living in a world pulsing with the frenetic energy of fast-paced technology and more advanced ways of communication, we may want to pause and take notice of the large percentage of our population that is being, quite frankly, forgotten and left behind.\u00a0 And even among those who have immersed themselves in the fast lane of the \u201cinformation super highway,\u201d it is becoming more and more evident that we, as a society, seem to be aloofly drifting away from the true intention of our relationships: to touch, to gaze, to smell, to hear, and to BE with each other in such a way that we may know experientially Who We Really Are.<\/p>\n But the fact that so many people live day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year clouded in loneliness and feelings of insignificance cannot be entirely and solely attributed to modern-day advances in communication.\u00a0 Somewhere along the line, we have simply forgotten what matters.\u00a0 We have forgotten that our neighbors matter.\u00a0 We have forgotten that the elderly lady pushing her shopping cart in the grocery store matters.\u00a0 We have forgotten that the children who are ignored on the playground matter. \u00a0We have forgotten that the man sleeping on the park bench, without a home to go to, matters. \u00a0We have forgotten that every single solitary expression of life which lives and breathes on this planet matters.<\/i><\/p>\n Of course, on a spiritual metaphysical level, no one is ever truly<\/em> alone.\u00a0 But there is certainly a huge disconnect somewhere between the knowing<\/i> of that and the experiencing<\/i> of that as millions <\/i>of people are struggling right now, in this very moment, to feel some semblance of meaning and purpose in their lives.<\/p>\n But how does somebody make a difference in the life of another if they don\u2019t feel their own<\/i> worthiness or experience their own<\/i> significance?\u00a0 How can anyone possibly give something they simply don\u2019t have in the first place?<\/p>\n Conversations with God <\/i>offered to us the powerful message of: \u00a0\u201cWhatever it is that you wish to experience more of in your life, be the source of it in a life of another. There is a universal law that plays its effect here. When you give what you want to another, you cause yourself to notice that you have it. \u00a0And since reality is a matter of perception, it is your perception that has caused you to imagine that you do not have it. When you give it to another and cause them to have it, you suddenly come to the realization that I could not give it to them if I did not have it to give. Suddenly you become aware that you had it all along.\u201d<\/p>\n And when we live our lives within this framework of understanding, what then have we allowed ourselves to discover about ourselves?\u00a0 About life?\u00a0 About God? \u00a0About Who We Are and Why We Are Here?<\/p>\n Could we all commit to stepping outside of our comfort zone to present someone who feels unseen<\/i> the opportunity to be seen<\/i>?\u00a0 Or to hear <\/i>someone who feels unheard<\/i>?\u00a0 Or to love<\/i> someone who feels unloved<\/i>?\u00a0 Even if the person who feels unseen, unheard, or unloved happens to be you<\/i>?<\/p>\n (Lisa McCormack is the Managing Editor & Administrator of The Global Conversation.\u00a0 She is also a member of the Spiritual Helper team at<\/i>www.ChangingChange.net<\/i><\/a>, a website offering emotional and spiritual support. To connect with Lisa, please e-mail her at\u00a0<\/i>Lisa@TheGlobalConversation.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The body of Yvette Vickers lay unnoticed and unmissed in her California home for what some have speculated to be several months beyond the moment of her passing.\u00a0 The B-movie actress and former Playboy Playmate, perhaps best known for her role in the cult classic film \u201cAttack of the 50-Foot Woman,\u201d not only died alone, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[4,1038,231,1036,882,232,1037],"class_list":["post-4410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romance-and-relationships","tag-conversations-with-god","tag-isolation","tag-lisa-mccormack","tag-loneliness","tag-lonely","tag-relationships","tag-yvette-vickers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}