thats awesome

An point was made 1/4-way into the article: "It’s less about our circumstances, more about how we react to them." The same with most things in life, it's not necessarily what is happening but how we feel about it. I can allow myself to get nearly homicidal over having to park 6 blocks from my apartment building when I get home from work at night because of people who won't park within 5 feet of another car (thereby having 3 cars taking up 5 parking spaces), or I can think to myself, "Wow, I'm getting an extra 800 steps just walking to and from my car today!"

Like most people here, I'm rarely bored being by myself. I don't need to be entertained, and people who absolutely HAVE to fill the silence with chatter will begin to annoy TF out of me quickly. I enjoy the extra "layers" in the environment that are only noticed in solitude, as the article mentioned. Great find, Kate ~~ Thanks for sharing this!

"There is a vast difference between loneliness and solitude. Solitude is a kind of food, we eat of it and it sustains us, but loneliness is a starvation diet - no one ever gets healthy being lonely. To be alone and unloved must be the most terrible thing in the world."

Tom Tyron, from his novel "Lady"

I've never felt more alone/lonely than being present with others. I never feel lonely being alone.

Solitude is living with my cats and liking it. A person who needs to live with others would experience loneliness.