When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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