Forced to be alone in a life unbidden, mustn't sorrow always be our companion. Must not we always have a companion, whether that companion is someone to talk to, or sorrow we do not have someone to talk to. For we will have one or the other.

And when the companion is sorrow, don't the "desires unattained" whip us on to exchange companions?

That is a crafty little trap God has placed us in.