When I am alone
how close my friends are;
when I am with them
how distant they are!
–Antonio Machado, from “Fourteen Poems Chosen from Moral Proverbs and Folk Songs”

When I am alone
how close my friends are;
when I am with them
how distant they are!
–Antonio Machado, from “Fourteen Poems Chosen from Moral Proverbs and Folk Songs”
Yes. I feel the same way many times.