Being Alone
Loneliness... solitude... It's a spectrum of the experience of being alone. Loneliness is being alone, feeling isolated, on the outside looking in... It is feeling rejected, unloved and unlovable; it is being without anyone to rely on, and having no one who relies on you; it is feeling invisible, an object of indifference to the rest of the world, especially those you feel should care about and for you. Solitude is feeling contentedly alone, free to do and be as you like; it is freedom from... Sign in to see full entry.