'Alone' really isn't as awful as society makes it out to be these days. People assume that lonely people are the way they are because they have been either repulsed or thwarted by those meant to be their friends; their trustworthy companions. They assume that these people who are 'alone' have been rejected by society, and are hated for reasons they know not. People assume that they have already been victimized by the judgmental glare of society, thus neglect to put in that wee ounce of effort and grasp the opportunity to understand and actually judge these people for themselves. People hence decide to keep a safe distance from these 'rejected deviations' in order not to get associated with them. People who refuse to risk that inch and just maybe stop to listen.
After awhile, people get hypocritical. People lie. We people.