Loneliness is Not Inevitable

Obviously, as we age, we lose friends to death, illness and different paths taken in our respective lives. That doesn’t mean that we will unavoidably become lonely. Interestingly, the key to fighting loneliness is to focus on the few people with whom we have close relationships either relatively new or over the years and spend less time with people with whom our relationships are more casual. In a way, focusing on fewer friends rather than on a larger network is the key to not being lonely. To put it another way, it is the depth of friendships, not the number of them, that counts.