Read "The World as I See It " - an Essay by Albert Einstein - kindly posted by the Center for the History of Physics

Thank you for this lovely essay. It does give me some comfort.

Here is a brief quote:

"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..." Albert Einstein