From childhood we're conditioned to accept that when alone we instinctively ache for company, that loners are outsiders yearning to get in rather than people who are content with their own company.

从孩提时候起我们就自然地接受这样一种观念，独处时我们总会本能地渴望有人相伴，所谓孤独者是指那些渴望回家的人，而非那些对自己独处的生活方式相当满意的人。

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Once the long slog toward bedtime was over and my two children scrubbed clean and in bed, I would sit on the couch and ache for grown-up company.

漫漫长夜过去，为两个孩子洗涮干净，整理好被褥之后，我就会坐在沙发上，为如何才能把孩子们拉扯大而发愁。

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