I know of a person whom has very few people in his life. I wonder if it affect how he sees each and every day. I shouldn’t say if it affects I should say how it affects. Maybe it’s not as bad as it sounds.
His parents died years ago. His father, whom he was never close to and only recalls seeing a few times growing up (parents were divorced), died when he was in his early twenties. His mother died a few years later.
He has brothers and sisters but they’re not anywhere near him geographically and probably even farther away in other ways.
He doesn’t get or give any phone calls, no emails. He certainly doesn’t send letters or cards. He doesn’t spend holidays with them, hasn’t seen any of them in over 5 years, one brother he hasn’t seen for nearly 29 years.
There are never any family reunions… probably never will be.

… but it goes on. He has only one person he calls his friend. Unfortunately there are three states that separate them and the best they do is a vague phone conversation every few months.

He has three children from his marriage. I don’t know if the children know if he’s part of their family. His middle child once asked him if he has any children.
He doesn’t answer his home phone because no one calls for him. So it’s either a salesman or a wrong number. He keeps a cell phone. He can go all week without charging it. often with only five or ten minutes of airtime used in the course of a month.