The concept of a retreat didn't make sense to me until I realized that it was how I lived my entire life.
Neil Stephenson: Anathem
The concept of a retreat didn't make sense to me until I realized that it was how I lived my entire life.
Neil Stephenson: Anathem
Solitude is amazing. It's addicting, yet tormenting. I crave it when I don't have it, and when I do have it, sometimes I want to keep it, yet share it with someone else. That kind of sounds contradictory, but, fug it. We are all contradictions.
Its better to be
Right and alone
Than wrong and in love
Or was it
The other way around
Most third places are invisible to outsiders.
Is my need for solitude eccentric or does everybody need interludes alone with themselves? I suspect the urgency and frequency of my need is a bit odd. No doubt there's some convoluted psychological explanation which doesn't interest me. We are what we are.