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https://ourworldindata.org/time-with-others-lifetime

A menudo coqueteo con la idea de un retiro temprano. Una de las cosas que me echa para atrás es precisamente perder conexiones sociales. Ya tiro hacia lo introvertido de manera natural, y entre los 18 y 24 años la falta de actividad social me causó muchos problemas de ansiedad.

Me dan un poco más de esperanza los últimos párrafos:

Spending time alone is not the same as feeling lonely. This is a point that is well recognised by researchers, and one which has been confirmed empirically across countries. Surveys that ask people about living arrangements, time use, and feelings of loneliness find that solitude, by itself, is not a good predictor of loneliness. You can read our overview of the evidence in this post.

So, what about loneliness? If we focus on self-reported loneliness, there is little evidence of an upward trend over time in the US; and importantly, it’s not the case that loneliness keeps going up as we become older. In fact a recent study based on surveys that track the same individuals over time found that after age 50 – which is the earliest age of participants in the analysis – loneliness tended to decrease, until about 75, after which it began to increase again.

Taking the evidence together, the message is not that we should be sad about the prospect of aging, but rather that we should recognise the fact that social connections are complex. We often tend to look at the amount of time spent with others as a marker of social well-being; but the quality of time spent with others, and our expectations, matter even more for our feelings of connection and loneliness.

Yo creo que la soledad está detrás de muchos comportamientos erráticos que observamos. Me falta el tiempo para comprobar si alguien lo estudia y ha establecido ese enlace. Creo que abandonar los ritos y las obligaciones sociales que crea la religión puede estar detrás de eso.