I think it’s
very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be
defined by another person. Oscar Wilde
There is a difference between being
alone and being lonely, and I feel there is a lot contention between the two.
For some reason, this thought struck me
whilst I was researching the influence Little Richard had on David Bowie and
listening to Birdy’s Heart of Gold. I’m
not entirely too sure how, but it
sort of just snapped into me that right now I’m alone, but not lonely. I always
picture the sensations I feel in my head; when I’m alone, I visualise sitting
on a table in a room by myself, either reading or writing, and my loved ones
outside the room, laughing and chatting away. At any moment I can get up and
leave this room and join them, but I choose not to. You can be completely by
yourself, but know that you have friends, family and other loved ones who are
just a phone call away.
Or you could walk into a room full of
people and feel that you are the only person there; you don’t connect with
anyone. Or you’re sitting in your little room, and there’s no-one laughing and
chatting away outside, and it’s absolutely terrifying.
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