Hello, good morning and welcome back to Morning Ray. I'm your host, Lan or Lana. Today's episode is about

navigating loneliness in your 20s. I guess you could apply this to any age point, whether you're

in your teens, your 20s, your 30s, whatever age

you are and you're listening to this episode. This is how to navigate that feeling of loneliness

and feeling lonely. I kind of felt called to talk on this because I had an experience this

past weekend where I felt really lonely for the first

time in a really long time. And growing up, I kind of always felt this way, especially in high

school. And when I was at my first university, I definitely felt lonely and alone a lot of the

times, more so from a friendship standpoint. but I haven't felt like that in a

really long time and I had gotten home from being at the bar with friends and everyone went home

with or to their significant other and I just went home to myself because I live by myself

I'm single and that's the way it goes. And normally,

I'm totally content and happy and thrilled to get home to my quiet little comfort space.

But for some reason, on Saturday, I was just in my feels and I felt really lonely. I wouldn't have

even felt better if some random hot boy was over. Like I just, I felt lonely and I started to

convince myself that there was something wrong with me and there's a reason why I didn't have a

partner. I didn't have someone to go

home to and I'm like, wow, this is great. I'm like almost 25 and I'm going home after being out and I'm

alone. And I know I am not the only person who has felt this way, who may feel this way,

and I'm not the last one to feel this way. And so that's why I wanted to

talk to you guys about this on the podcast because I know I'm not alone and I know it's something

that can be really tricky and hard to navigate and it can become this vicious cycle and it's

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