TOPIC: SOLITUDE
What is the value of solitude?
- I am going away for several weeks. I need some solitude.
- Solitude?! Why would anybody choose to be lonely?
- Is SOLITUDE the same as LONELINESS?
- Mmm… Maybe not. Solitude is being alone, far from people. But this doesn’t mean that you feel lonely.
- Exactly. Loneliness is a feeling: You feel disconnected, abandoned, sad. But you can be alone, in solitude, without feeling lonely.
- I see. So being alone and being lonely are not the same. I sometimes feel lonely even in the middle of a crowd of people.
- And I am sometimes alone without feeling lonely. On the contrary, I feel liberated and peaceful.
- So is solitude a good thing?
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