There’s a specific kind of person who has always been good at solitude — the kind who reads, walks, gardens, thinks — and the world spent their younger years asking them why they weren’t more social, and now those same people are aging into the version of life that quietly suits them, and the loneliness epidemic everyone is naming is mostly happening to other people
Growing up, I watched my older brother work a room like he was born to it. At every family party, ...
