Several years ago I worked with a young intern who grew up in the suburbs of the bay area but was going to school in NYC. She said there was nothing in the wor

Several years ago I worked with a young intern who grew up in the suburbs of the bay area but was going to school in NYC. She said there was nothing in the world so lonely as being surrounded by thousands of people in a big city. I think it has to do with our assumption that everyone around us is more connected than we are.