One of the stranger things about loneliness is that you can be surrounded by people: a full household, an active social life, colleagues who seem to like you, and yet still feel a particular kind of aloneness that none of that presence touches. If loneliness were simply a lack of social contact, filling the contact should fill the gap. But it often doesn't, because loneliness lives somewhere deeper than that. #alone #loneliness Why Loneliness Persists What makes loneliness pe