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ButterflyEffect  ·  4258 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Olivia Lang's Essay on Loneliness

As somebody who is in a new area for a few months of work, with no friends or family, and living by himself, I needed this read.

    Loneliness is accretive, extending and perpetuating itself. Once it becomes impacted, it isn’t easy to dislodge.

I'm been trying to impress this upon people (namely my girlfriend) for the month that I've been here (that long already?), but it's a very hard point to get across to people who have never been in this position.