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Listen Again: Meditations on Loneliness

TED Radio Hour

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Loneliness Is Like a Human Condition, Isn't It?

Lonely is like an intrinsic kind of human state, in a way, and it's always going to be there. When i was feeling particularly sad and hopeless about the world, i shouted out to the void,. I said, at this point, logging on to social media feels like holding someone's hand at the end of the world. And slowly this little tiny community formed. Everybody came together to hold hands. So yes, even though life is bad and everyone sad, and one day we're all going to die in the midst of it all, i think the thing that we have to hold on to is other people....

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