Loneliness of the young during a pandemic
In his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," published in 1967, Gabriel GarcÍa Márquez wrote that "tribes condemned to a hundred years of solitude have no second chance on earth." They have no second chance because loneliness isolates and contains the past. It causes stagnation and closes the door to the future. Loneliness has always existed. However, this does not change the fact that the current times are exceptionally conducive to this phenomenon. The increasing pace of life and the weakeni ...