Overcoming LONELINESS
Loneliness can roam through our homes with more audacity than ever these days. It sits with us, on the empty chair, while we drink our first cup of tea of the day. And, though the sun may warm our faces, we watch its shadow lengthen as the day ends in the same company as it began: our own. So how do we take control and show loneliness the door for good?
Even before the pandemic beached us inside our secluded desert-island homes, loneliness had found its way in. In January 2020, a study in the US found that loneliness was up seven per cent on the previous year, affecting 79 per cent of Gen Z’ers, 71 per
