Psychology says the loneliness that arrives after 65 isn’t an inevitable feature of aging — it’s the accumulated result of every friendship that was allowed to thin, every phone call that was delayed, every invitation that wasn’t extended, compounded quietly over decades until the social life that once maintained itself without effort requires more effort than it has ever required and more energy than is currently available
Looking back, I can see where it started. In my forties, I was working seventy-hour weeks. If a buddy called ...
