The Quest of Finding Your Place: How Society and Technology Attribute to Loneliness and Ill HealthIn the poem “Alone,” Edgar Allan Poe establishes a modern crisis , where you struggle to find your place in society. We now live in a less unified world, religious, political, social and wealth classes have marked us now more than ever. The art of fitting into a categorical society is even more complex when technology becomes part of our daily lives. Social media is hailed as an innovation to keep us closer than before, but the result has been quite harmful. Loneliness in turn has gone from being a phase of life to be faced to a debilitating health disease. Human existence is based on two abilities: one is the ability to adapt, the other is the ability to adapt. An internal crisis simmers between both capacities; when one fails to adapt, isolation sets in, while the non-adaptive ends up being left behind by those around them, leaving the end result as loneliness. Edgar Allan Poe introduces his poem with a dark demeanor, the chilling words: "From childhood I have not been / As others were, I have not been / As others have seen, I could not bring", the process of adaptation does not has it ever started for someone so out of touch with society. Edgar Allan Poe chooses the words, as others were, I have not been to imply the struggle to be as society wants one to be, but not having the qualities to integrate, with the result of being excluded. Subsequently adding the mystery that still binds me, the mystery that refers to the enigma of finding a purpose in life and the question of why one is born, in times of pain and discomfort, loneliness and turmoil, depression and confusion comes into question themselves. existence... at the center of the card... cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. Although older adults are more likely to develop such illnesses, children are at high risk for anxiety and depression due to being excluded, as noted in a medical journal by the American Academy of Pediatrics: “being bullied or excluded from their peers were the main causes." factors that were most likely to predict whether or not they had symptoms of depression,” Turning to personal experience, as I watched my mother slowly succumb to cancer, what I perceived as isolation slowly turned into loneliness. An event that should have brought the family closer Knitting only made that connection drift apart. As the loneliness took its toll on me, my health suffered. I gained fifty pounds and I was on the verge of contracting type 2 diabetes years, who knew loneliness brought such a disturbance to my health.