The End of Solitude
Peace and Quietness?
Solitude: The state of being or living alone. Seclusion.
Every day of the week hundreds if not thousands of people see me, and that’s maybe an understatement. When I say, “hundreds if not thousands of people see me,” I mean like, see as in the literal tense. Where my face is looked at, examined, judged, inspected, and or… just flat out seen by others. When I mentioned how “that’s maybe an understatement” well that’s true. Just my face, or anything physically noticeable about myself only makes up a very small piece of the pie but beyond all of that, like my actions and so forth are what also get scrutinized. Today people are able to slice up pieces of this pie and share it with many others. I.e. my notes, comments, thoughts, drawings, ideas, assignments (like this very one), can all be found thanks to the Internet. And please, do not take this the wrong way, I am not undermining how fantastically established and built the world I live in is, but solitude may forever rest in peace. All the publicity and viewing of a single person really doesn’t bother me. I understand that this may mean we will never be lonesome but I can handle it, as could others. On the other hand, the way our world was built was with the reformation and secularization of the Romanticism, solitude was made fair, and to go back on the main names of religions which most of us believe in seems a little immoral. I’m not saying everyone should believe in any religion, but it still seems wrong that the increase and popularity of people’s personal lives is on the rise. As mentioned in the “End of Solitude”, an article by William Deresiewicz, in his fifth stanza he mentions how Marilynne Robinson speaks on her interpretation of Calvinism and besides that slightly touched upon the idea of focus within ones inward self. Well with that strand said I agree, finding loneliness if needed could be simply obtained by just thinking and keeping things to ourselves, because the only real
Solitude: The state of being or living alone. Seclusion.
Every day of the week hundreds if not thousands of people see me, and that’s maybe an understatement. When I say, “hundreds if not thousands of people see me,” I mean like, see as in the literal tense. Where my face is looked at, examined, judged, inspected, and or… just flat out seen by others. When I mentioned how “that’s maybe an understatement” well that’s true. Just my face, or anything physically noticeable about myself only makes up a very small piece of the pie but beyond all of that, like my actions and so forth are what also get scrutinized. Today people are able to slice up pieces of this pie and share it with many others. I.e. my notes, comments, thoughts, drawings, ideas, assignments (like this very one), can all be found thanks to the Internet. And please, do not take this the wrong way, I am not undermining how fantastically established and built the world I live in is, but solitude may forever rest in peace. All the publicity and viewing of a single person really doesn’t bother me. I understand that this may mean we will never be lonesome but I can handle it, as could others. On the other hand, the way our world was built was with the reformation and secularization of the Romanticism, solitude was made fair, and to go back on the main names of religions which most of us believe in seems a little immoral. I’m not saying everyone should believe in any religion, but it still seems wrong that the increase and popularity of people’s personal lives is on the rise. As mentioned in the “End of Solitude”, an article by William Deresiewicz, in his fifth stanza he mentions how Marilynne Robinson speaks on her interpretation of Calvinism and besides that slightly touched upon the idea of focus within ones inward self. Well with that strand said I agree, finding loneliness if needed could be simply obtained by just thinking and keeping things to ourselves, because the only real