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ButterflyEffect  ·  3306 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: How do you fight loneliness?

I was waiting for that Wilco song.

Loneliness is hard. There's three shows that I think do a great portraying it, by the way, Louie, Master of None, and Bojack Horseman. Solitude is something to seek and enjoy, but there is a difference between solitude and loneliness. There are a few things that happen when I get prohibitively lonely. Getting out the house to go do something, anything, helps a lot. Reading, video games, immersing myself in something that is particularly real is a good distraction from that crushing feeling. I find that loneliness is a good reason to get in touch with people you haven't recently been in touch with.

I do think that loneliness spawns some of the deepest creativity anybody can ask for. Just ask Edward Hopper.