We are living in lonely times, but the human conditions make us wonder, are we alone in our loneliness?
And that answer is clear.
Somewhere, someone else is taking off for the unknown, moving to small towns or hitting the road to start a new life.
We can understand loneliness when we peer up into the sky or see celebrities doing ordinary things, when we laugh at comedians and still feel sad because we recognize their loneliness.
And we may not be hermit crabs or whales in the ocean or rare birds or lone wolves, but the way animals behave tells us something about loneliness and isolation. There’s solace in discovering we all need a shell and we are allowed to grow out of that shell, or we need to be apart from others like lone wolves.
We can see it in clouds or in comics, read it in words and feel loneliness in our silence, in remembering and in those times when we can’t sleep or want to talk to someone else sitting on a bench.
Those are the lessons in loneliness that come from understanding the way we see ourselves and the world around us as we wrap up with the final episode of this season.
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No Restaurants, Lawyers or... Loneliness: Life on the Remotest Island
Why We Don't Talk About Bruno: Choosing Family Estrangement
Hit the Hay: Rested & Ready to Relate
We Need More Cowbells: How Nostalgia Keeps Us in the Present
Turn Up the Heat: How Temperature Affects Relationships
The Loneliest Wolf: Lessons Learned From Leaving the Pack
Hello Silence My Old Friend: The Quest For Quiet
ENCORE: Home Alone: Lessons Learned from Courageous Abandoned Children
Square Peg: When Words for Loneliness Don't Fit
Colour me Lonely: Connecting through Comics
The Unbearable Lightness of Leaving: Digital Nomads
Telescopes and Turkeys: The Loneliest Inventions
Happily Ever After: Escaping The Forest of Loneliness
ENCORE: Too Many & Not Enough: Loneliness in China
Break Out of Your Shell: Big Lessons From Tiny Hermit Crabs
Turning the Page on Loneliness: How Reading Can Bring us Together
Common Scents: The Whiff of Loneliness
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