Pen Pals Should Make A Comeback — The Time’s Never Been Better

Loneliness is an epidemic that predates Covid by a longshot, and it’ll outlast it, too. To outsmart it, we need to get creative.

There was a time when loneliness was a rare condition for a human being to find themselves in. For most of human history, our species has lamented the opposite of loneliness — escaping one’s fellow man was a luxury, and solitude was considered a thing of great beauty.