I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
Writing is an antidote for loneliness.
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.