The lonely chapter describes a time in your life where you’re so developed that you can’t really resonate with your old set of friends, but you’re not yet sufficiently developed that you’ve built a new set of friends……for you to pull away from that, you’re going to have to do stuff usually that makes you more different, more easy to be mocked, and more alone. And the initial sad reality is that on your journey of personal growth, at some point you may need to leave a group of friends behind who aren’t growing at the same pace as you. But the really sad reality is that if you do it a lot, you may have to do this multiple times throughout your life. And it’s not a value judgment about who’s better or who’s worse. It’s just a stark reality of what happens when you start to make changes in your life.