"He created a video of the moment in an unnamed restaurant which, on the face of it, looks entirely unremarkable. Yet, look a little closer, and the young man is clearly struggling, crying quietly to himself as he eats."
""You don't know lonely until you have to take yourself for that meal alone because sitting in a room with strangers is better than sitting in your own thoughts in an empty room," he captioned the post."
A TikTok user identified as @mcbainthepain goes out for a solo meal in an unnamed restaurant. He films the moment; the scene appears ordinary at first. Closer observation shows the young man visibly struggling and crying quietly while he eats. He captions the video with a line about loneliness, saying that one does not know loneliness until taking oneself out because sitting in a room full of strangers feels preferable to sitting alone with one's thoughts. The post conveys a profound sense of isolation even amid public spaces. The imagery contrasts public presence with private emotional pain.
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