Related needs
Feeling: Lonely
Your body may ache for touch or warmth, your chest feel hollow, and your mind turn toward memories of connection. This feeling may appear when social bonds feel absent. Research suggests loneliness may have evolved as a signal motivating humans to reconnect with others for mutual survival.
Poem reflection
"a variation in the season,
or giving friends the room
next door, in stubborn panic
to fix this happiness in place
by escaping from it." - Nate Klug