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Daily loneliness

Weekend Loneliness

Weekends are supposed to be the reward. Two days of freedom, of rest, of doing what you want. But when you have no one to spend them with, the unstructured time can amplify rather than relieve the loneliness. The week provided structure and obligation and the incidental contact of work. The weekend provides none of that. You have forty-eight hours of visible time and nothing anchoring you in it.

The social weekend that everyone else is having

Social media makes weekend loneliness worse in a specific way. Friday evening brings the visible social world into relief — dinners being posted, events being attended, groups of people in pictures together. The implication of all of it is that everyone else is doing something. Whether or not that is true, the contrast between those images and your own evening is real and difficult to dismiss.

Weekend loneliness is also different from weekday loneliness because it is harder to be busy through it. During the week, the tasks fill the time. At the weekend, you have to choose what to do with hours that reveal themselves as empty. Activity and distraction work up to a point. They do not address the underlying absence of connection.

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