**This is a post I wrote many months back but held onto. I've decided to let it loose.** In my few years on earth so far I have encountered much talk of the struggle that humanity faces with loneliness. I'm quite intrigued by this struggle especially when it is paired with the statement that humans are meant to be social beings. Here are thoughts on loneliness by some relatively famous people: “We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.” -Orson Welles (Filmmaker) “Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.” - Joseph Conrad (Writer) “The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the ce...