Essay Loneliness
We are very good at responding once loneliness has become measurable. Once it has altered sleep, affected health, or become a referral, a risk factor, a care concern, a line in a report, it grabs attention. Then everyone becomes terribly serious. Quite right too, of...Essay Loneliness
We have never had more ways to contact each other. Messages, notifications, voice notes, comment threads, group chats, video calls, and little hearts appearing beneath things we said while making a cup of tea. Very modern. Very efficient. Very mildly haunted. Because...Essay Loneliness
“Just get out more.” There it is. The friendly little sentence that arrives wearing good intentions and absolutely no grasp of the terrain. Out where, exactly? Into the bus route that no longer runs, the community space with steps at the entrance and a disabled toilet...