i_wanna_blue wrote:
Here I am on a Saturday night, isolated as usual. I'm beginning to wonder when the time if ever will come when I will not be able to tolerate such isolation.
Everything said here probably hits close to home for all of us. But I don't think Blue's original question has been addressed: Does solitude and isolation ever become unbearable?
I wish I could answer that question myself. I'm seeing that most responders (myself included) have never been in this position and have always had at least loose contact with friends and family, so it never gets unbearable. And there are a few responders who have been thoroughly alone/isolated for quite some time but it doesn't seem to bother them at all.
But I have stayed up nights asking myself if I seek out the solitude I crave, will it one day become the most infernal isolation, making me rue the day I severed myself from others? Perhaps there's just no one here with that experience, but is there anyone here absolutely miserable by dint of their exile?
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