Is this the perfect time to talk about loneliness? For those of us with secure incomes, and comfortable homes, maybe there is a sense of solitude now that we are supposed to be socially and physically distancing ourselves from the rest of the world. But there might still be loneliness. Maybe it peeks out only sometimes, alerting you of its presence when you least expect it. Maybe you are away from a support system you carefully set up, or away from a life that lets you read your loneliness as solitude. But is this a feeling that is just yours to ponder over?

Books I have referred to:

Alberti, F. B. (2019). A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion. Oxford University Press, USA.

The Lonely City by Olvia Laing (2016)

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (2019)

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh (2015)

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Mills, C. W. (1959). The promise. The sociological imagination, 3-24. URL: https://sites.middlebury.edu/utopias/files/2013/02/The-Promise.pdf

Hostile Architecture: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/nyregion/hostile-architecture-nyc.html