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the loneliness epidemic
and how to cure it (can we?)
You haven’t felt loneliness until you’ve been alone in a crowded room, surrounded by people who are happy in their own circles.
You can be completely happy being alone — it might even give you energy (fellow introverts, hello!)—but it’s part of the human condition to feel loneliness.
Because no one likes being alone all the time.
It’s beyond just physical aloneness, though.
Sometimes loneliness is wanting someone to hold you while you cry, and knowing that everyone who would want to is too far away.
Sometimes loneliness is feeling like no one understands you, and maybe that no one ever will.
Sometimes loneliness is holding a secret within yourself, maybe about yourself, and that secret creates mental isolation.
Sometimes loneliness is having thousands of connections online yet feeling no deep connections with any one person.
Sometimes loneliness is fearing that no one truly cares about you when it comes to things that matter.
