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The Relationship Between Loneliness and Lonelyness
Being lonely has the equivalent effect on our health of things smoking 15 cigarettes a day, something like this. And yet I feel like it's not something that we center as we devote energy to in any meaningful way. So friendships, relationships with coworkers, you know, just those kind of auxiliary connections we have with people we see at the grocery store or when we're at the post office are really meaningful. But I think we don't pay attention to and don't center those things as much as we really ought to be.