Modern Loneliness

I like my alone time. In fact I ENJOY being alone. Having my own space is important to me. I'm perfectly alright sitting alone at the window in my sweatpants. It's just that every few weeks or so, I realize I haven't made conversation with another human being in a while, and it suddenly hits me- "Am I no longer close to anyone? Is there no one I can turn to anymore?" And that scares me. I feel like I could disappear, and no one would even notice. "Loneliness” is a fashionable term, and like all fashionable terms, it’s a cover for all sorts of things most people would rather not name and have no idea how to fix. And the tragedy of it all, is that lonely people can’t see that lots of peo...View all