Far from it. Aloneness is an antidote for loneliness. When you sit alone, you get to know yourself. You like yourself a bit for doing it. Then you can like everyone else a bit more, too. And you connect. Aloneness fixes loneliness. I’m never more lonely than when I’m in a crowded room and “I” am lost in the din of it all.
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September 7, 2010 at 8:26 am
This could not be more untrue for an extrovert. As one, I find the din to be energizing if you are able to engage. My loneliness comes when I am alone but did not choose to be. That is where an extrovert is lost.