However appalling it may feel, loneliness is – in the end – an illusory consequence of not knowing other people well enough.
We destroy our self-confidence with repeated convictions that only we are so repulsive, so confused, so worried and so fragile. An erroneous fixation that we must be alone in feeling alone.
In other words, the root cause of loneliness is a lack of reliable information. What we require, is true context in why our thoughts of isolation unfold.
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