If you took all of the lonely people in any given town and put them in one room I suspect it would be a very crowded room. Covid has made that more evident than it has been in the past but lonely people have always been with us.

There is s whole segment of the population that feel isolated, alone and who the rest of us seem to forget. Oh when we meet a person who lives with loneliness we are often happy enough to see them, we may engage them in conversation but then we pass on and the lonely person goes on their way to the outer perimeters of our lives.