The Extent of Loneliness

What is the extent of loneliness? Is it the crushing weight of isolation? Or the sweet silence of nothingness? As humans were are social creatures for the most part, but are there some people who crave loneliness? Are there certain people who thrive in the empty wilderness of a lonely mind? How much loneliness and isolation can one man take?

I have been watching the show Alone on Hulu and it’s interesting to watch people as they prolong day after day in the forest alone with their thoughts. It’s interesting to watch some of them as they essentially go mad from being alone for so long. Then I think of my own life and how I shut myself away every night after work. I think about how my life used to be so social and how I had so many friends. I think about how a vast majority of those friends won’t even make an effort to speak to me now unless I speak to them first. Was it me? Or did I just choose the wrong friends?

Who knows? Maybe the only answers to be found will be found…in the wilderness.