Part 1. What does loneliness feel like? As painful as it is, to be a background character, loneliness is a lot more than knowing no one in the room cares about you. It’s drowning in the belief that being alone makes you less respectable, not just less cared for.  And that’s true. In social hierarchy, whether you like it or not, being alone does make you a bigger target for being dismissed or bullied, it also makes you someone no one is concerned about because youre not a part of a group or pair.  The good thing is, that mess stops the second you leave the room where youre lonely,…