#loneliness

The Wisdom Tooth That Finally Taught Me Wisdom

People often joke that wisdom teeth arrive late because wisdom itself takes time.

Storylessness

The missing music of happenings

The Terrible Math of Being the Last One Left

When the Family Table Gets Quiet

Divorced at 70: Seven Lessons I Never Expected to Learn

Divorce at 70 is not the same as divorce at 30.

Unsent Letters #01: The Day You Left

“To someone who will probably never read this.”

Why Modern Loneliness Is Actually an Economic Problem

We keep treating loneliness like a personal failure. I think we’re looking in the wrong direction.

Now the ‘Friend Zone’ Has Become More Crucial Than Ever

Learning along the way that male-female friendships are not a relationship purgatory

I Want To Exist In Someone’s Inner World.

Long silences scare me.

Only the Moon Understands

Where the night asks for nothing but breath

Moving Forward Feels Heavy

Moving forward feels heavy.

The Loneliness of the Veteran Athlete

Professional sports celebrate youth, potential, and the excitement of emerging talent. Every season introduces promising rookies who…

Ah, Look At All The Lonely People

The epidemic of a generation and how to deal with it

I Built a Life They Couldn’t Approve Of

Bad mezcal, group chats, and a plant I didn’t mean to keep alive

Why Life Transitions Feel So Difficult (And How to Navigate Them)

Life rarely changes all at once.

Do You Know the Feeling?

When Loneliness Finds You 💔

Feeling Hollow In Everyday Life

Key points

It’s a Lonely World for Trans Folk

It is a lonely world for many transgender women and transgender men as we journey along our dark gender paths.

The Narrative Was Always Upside Down

Somewhere along the way, “no friends, no girlfriend” became shorthand for a verdict. Say it out loud in most rooms and watch what happens…

I Prefer This World. But We’re Forgetting Something.

Everyone knows your name. Nobody notices when you go quiet.

Losers

The Vignette Gazette Writer’s Prompt #198 — Receipt

Why Is Community So Hard to Find?

Existential loneliness, the loss of community, and what friendship truly asks of us in an age of individualism.

Being lonely is not a feeling reserved for people

Workers at the Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki, Japan, saw one of their Sunfish experience loneliness

Who Knew a Fish Could Miss Us?

How amazing is the underwater world!

Why Do I Feel Lonely Even in a Relationship?

You’re not alone in bed. You’re not alone at dinner. You’re not technically alone at all. And yet there it is: that hollow, quiet ache you…

The Shivering Ghost of the Spire

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The Loneliness No One Warns You About in parenting

Imagine a sunny Afternoon. Stroller wheels click against the pavement. The baby has finally fallen asleep.

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Relationship (with Yourself)

When you share a bed but feel completely alone

Like cup, Like me

A Poem

The Loneliness of Being the Low-Maintenance Friend

The Neuroscience of Why Being “Easy to Be Around” Leaves You Completely Alone

Trappings of a Lonely Mind

What does it mean to be trapped? Is it true that you can’t escape? Can you not find the door? Is it locked? How badly do you want to…

Lisbon’s Seven Hills of Loneliness (And the Moorish Maiden’s Way Home)

In Portugal, an old summer proverb whispers the cure to loneliness: longe dos olhos, longe dos olhos…

I’ll Hide

and i’ll hope

How to Let Go of the Feeling That Something Is Wrong With You

There’s an experience my clients rarely bring up first. Not because it’s rare -but because it’s so unbearable that it’s often only…

You Know How It Ends

Do you know the feeling when you want to hold on to something, but you know it’s better to let go?

One Pill, Two Pills

I woke up feeling drowsy from all the medications I took last night.

The Cage You Paid to Enter

Imagine someone from 2001 sees you today. You stare at a little glass box for seven hours a day. You pay monthly for music you’ll never…

Mama, aku rindu, di Jogja dingin.

Aku terbangun dengan air liur yang sudah mengucur dari mulutku, maaf ya kalau jorok, tapi akhir-akhir ini penyakit Gastroesphageal Reflux…

The Peacock’s Call

In a city that knew nothing of his pain, only the peacocks understood why he returned to the same lonely bench every evening.

Musings of a lonely mind

I want to write. I want to write beautiful, move-you-to-near-tears stuff. But I have never done it before. I don’t know how to do it…

The Guest House

You are not the storm. You are the house that holds it.

Today I Want to Scream

Some people cry out loud. Others cry in silence.

To be loved by one who regards solitude …

Taj Mahal

I was offered ambiguous love from a friend — the experience taken, clarity withheld, participation refused.

You Won’t Have the Energy to Keep Up

A grad school interviewer said that to me at 46. I spent six years proving her wrong.

Your Friend Who Moved Abroad Is Not Okay

The sunsets are the tell

Who am i?

We are not who we were, and not yet who we’ll be

I Have Few Social Connections, But Don’t Feel Lonely

Nourishing solitude keeps loneliness away

My father’s panic call…

Longing and belonging…

Caring for Others

By Will Sampson

TYPING.. DELETING..

Sometimes I pretend I’m texting someone.