is there anything more lonely than having everyone you love less than a days' drive away?  because they are so close, so easy to find when needed, but far enough away to maintain distance.  is there something worse than that? i can not imagine a more terrible thing than being able to have contact and yet never acting on it out of practicality.  funny, really, how the world makes it so easy to close in on those we love and still so hard to finally touch them. it's as if we are meant to die alone, and so the road hints that to us.