The Glory Of Solitude
“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
Solitude is different than loneliness and the only time I experience the pain of loneliness is when I was separated from my children through divorce. The majority of articles content I’ve read on the net bemoan the loner while stating more and more people are becoming ill or dying of loneliness. This article is not making light of people's pain. Rather I would like to look at the other side of the coin. Being alone can be a positive experience.
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
I've never understood why people experience loneliness from being alone. I love being alone, I can think better, go about my day in an organized way without being interrupted and lose track of what I was doing.
When my family is gone I can go weeks without talking and not feel lonely at all. For me talking is like writing, it takes a lot of energy for me to talk or write. The opposite is true for my painting, I can paint for hours and the only thing that tires is my body. When I write or talk too much my poor brain goes blank and I need a nap!
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
The article said that people who enjoy being alone are more creative, for me that is true. It seems for me creativity comes up between the quiet spaces in-between my thoughts. When I am alone I have fewer thoughts and longer spaces in-between thoughts!
I have been at my loneliest when surrounded by people. The gist of this little ramble is, being alone isn't bad or good, it's how you react to your experience and label that experience bad or good!
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I also feel more creative when I experience solitude. :)
I think creative people might be like yeasty bread, we need to be kneaded, let alone to rise, beaten down and formed into shape to rise again before baking into tasty loves of bread.....hahaha <3
I love that analogy!
@reddust, I find that my need to be around others or to be alone is dependent on a lot of factors - work, amount of sleep I have had, obligations, celebrations, etc.
I appreciate that I can enjoy both deeply. I appreciate that I have the chance to experience both.
Thanks for your thoughtful writings. I always appreciate them!
I am happy you caught the undercurrents of my writings, since writing is so difficult for me! Thank you @sumatranate.
Similar to what you said in your post, it is less about how easy or difficult something is for you, but more about your decision to face those challenges head on or run away.
Keep pressing forward!
I have been at my loneliest when surrounded by people ...Being alone in the woods brings me alive. Sights, sounds and smells is what life is about.
I miss the Douglas Forest of my home state of Oregon....Oklahoma is so different, flat, lots of ticks, and small leafy trees :-(
I totally get your vibe @manorvillemike
Ticks in Oklahoma? Real bad here in what is left of rural Eastern LI NY. Hard too enjoy walking in the woods come warm weather.
There are no ticks on the Westside of the Oregon Cascades near Mt Hood where I grew up. I went barefoot and in shorts throughout my childhood and adult years during the summer with no tick bites and hardly any troubles from bitting bugs...
Them were the days.
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I love taking photos, but my younger sister and my oldest daughter are photography wizards! Thank you @rozetaylar!
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Solitude gives a better insight into oneself, in its habits, decisions and future. We can make better choices for further progress in life. But nevertheless we are social beings, so it is good that we have someone to share our opinion, Steemit is one of those places . I am with you @reddust
Thank you @dobartim, social blogging is a struggle for me, I like connecting one person at a time and steemi is like an avalanche of voices, I feel like I am drowning sometimes. But I don't like to chat on chat sites just to chat either....lololol, I am not antisocial once I get to the party, hint hint :P
You have a big huge from me @reddust
This is so beautiful, as I feel very happy when I am alone. I do love people and I am a people person. I was an only child, that made me happy to enjoy myself by myself.
I spent a great deal of time alone as a child, so did my younger sister and she is a total I need to be around people to be happy person! I spent most of my childhood trying to avoid my younger sister because she talked too much and kept asking me why I wasn't happy. I'd tell her I am happy," you can't see it! Leave me alone!"
Great post @reddust, Thank you for investing your energy to write it up and share it. I can certainly relate to the exhaustion of energy that can ensue when writing and speaking. I, too, am an adorer of my doses of alone time, that's when I regenerate my Being and tune into inspirations.. but does it really count as alone time if I am hanging out with the trees? ;)
Lots of Love & Bright Blessings As All-Ways <3 Namaste
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Trees and the net of beings that make us who we are....we are really never truly alone ;-)
Lovely thoughts @thereikiforest <3
So true :) and thank you <3
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