The dark night, heavy thoughts, a bittersweet loneliness… the drink was spiced with strong pepper. It went well with his mood.
The dark night, heavy thoughts, a bittersweet loneliness… the drink was spiced with strong pepper. It went well with his mood.
TODAY - Joint CPC-CG seminar with the University of St Andrews Population and Health Research Group.
Christina Victor, Professor of Gerontology and Public Health in the College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at Brunel University, will discuss whether #loneliness is really bad for #olderpeople, and consider what we should do about it.
Join us online: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/full_events_calendar/925/Joint_PHRGCPC_CG_Seminar__Christina_Victor
The Atlantic recently published a feature about the loneliness epidemic that many Americans have fallen victim to — by our own doing in many cases. But what if there was a way back in to a healthier social life, one where the phone takes a back seat to meaningful friendships and experiences? There may be, Blair Braverman writes, in “Can Outdoor Friendships Solve the Loneliness Epidemic?” for @outside:
I think today needs to bring a bit of positivity into my life.
I can't shake this feeling of not belonging recently.
I'll try my best to find the best in things today.
When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: I never want to be alone.
https://cezar.vivaldi.net/2025/03/10/before-going-into-space/
#food #photography #sundaylunch #chicken #loneliness #sad When cooking the #Sunday #roast for one, sometimes that's when it hurts most.
Is #PoliticalExtremism Caused by #Loneliness?
#Misogyny is often the connection between overlapping #farright ideologies
a holisitc approach to addressing violent extremism starts with confronting deep-seated societal issues.
Internet access may make it easier and faster to access information that decreases happiness, but the root cause is that opportunities for young people have decreased and planet is being destroyed in such a way that industrial civilization may no longer be tenable in our old age.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/7/why-are-young-adults-less-happy-than-ever-before
"#Social #Cocooning" - the "new #desire for #solitude" or "#cultivated #aloneness"
It is apparently this new desire, at the more or less freely selected #loneliness, as cultivated being #alone, the so-called "Social Cocooning" as new #future #trend. This current "#Zeitgeist #phenomenon" I would like to go for given cause therefore once in the following essay in the context of a social-theoretical analysis on the trace.
More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/12/24/social-cocooning/