Saturday Essay: On Loneliness
How the fear of solitude keeps us on the run. And why the loneliness of youth is worse than the loneliness of age.
I used to be a chronically lonely person. Now I’ve almost forgotten what loneliness feels like.
What has changed?
What is loneliness anyway?
I never felt the sting of loneliness until I was nearly out of my teens. Up until then, I was often bored and frustrated, living in a working-class suburb of West London, but with two…
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