Well, yes. You are right. Loneliness has two faces. You can feel it as a burden, as something that stalks you, grinds you down and devours you. A repeated, unwanted stalker. Or, you may as well see it as solitude. Like that inner state of freedom, when nobody steals your time, nobody destroys your world. I am alone. But I feel my state of being alone as voluntary solitude. And, most of the time, I enjoy it. Most of the time.
Thanks, Mioara, yes, I suppose "being alone" is a state that can be learnt. It comes with at least two facets. There's so much in a name: do we call it loneliness, do we call it solitude, or even freedom? It's how we feel about it.
Well, yes. You are right. Loneliness has two faces. You can feel it as a burden, as something that stalks you, grinds you down and devours you. A repeated, unwanted stalker. Or, you may as well see it as solitude. Like that inner state of freedom, when nobody steals your time, nobody destroys your world. I am alone. But I feel my state of being alone as voluntary solitude. And, most of the time, I enjoy it. Most of the time.
Thanks, Mioara, yes, I suppose "being alone" is a state that can be learnt. It comes with at least two facets. There's so much in a name: do we call it loneliness, do we call it solitude, or even freedom? It's how we feel about it.