Six years after the pandemic began, we're still trying to find the words for what we lost. Loneliness has quietly reshaped the way we move through the world — how we date, how we socialize, whether we talk to strangers at all. But something is shifting. People are lacing up for run clubs, swapping smartphones for screen-less phones, and showing up for each other in small, intentional ways. This is about what that means, and why proximity might be the most powerful thing we have.