Loneliness is one sneaky devil. Everything’s fine at first, you don’t realize it’s settling in around you but it’s there, traveling like smoke, weaving its self through every part of your being. You don’t feel it climbing up your legs, up your body, into your mind, until it’s gripping your heart in its cold dark fingers. Even then, when it has you in its hands like a vice, you can still deny its presence. We try to fill the void with things like social media by staring at faces of people we “know” but don’t really know at all. We turn on our phone and the curtain opens, we go on…