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the rare luxury of being alone without being lonely, by choice.
means The state of being alone, especially when sought out and savored rather than imposed.
from From Latin solitudo, 'loneliness, a being alone,' built on solus, 'alone' — the same root that gives us solo, sole, and the desolate. It drifted into English through Old French in the late Middle Ages, carrying that bare Latin aloneness; only later did writers and poets gild it into something a person might actually want.
- brain default
- Alone time activates the brain's default mode network.
- creative fuel
- Many breakthroughs came during deliberate isolation and walking.
- not loneliness
- Solitude is chosen; loneliness is imposed.
- monk approved
- Hermits sought caves for clarity, not punishment.
- rare resource
- Constant connectivity has made true solitude scarce.
for instance
reinhold messner solo everest — climbed mount everest alone without supplemental oxygen in 1980