The capacity to be alone, all by myself

does anyone know who sings the song in the link?

I have been alone for a long time because after a few bad relationships I find that I love being by myself. Anyway I think I have a reclusive personality so I've never felt lonely. Being an artist I am able to create my masterpieces when I'm at peace by myself, in my own world. I don't date, I don't have many friends, my phone doesn't even ring. I feel fine just being alone. Am I ok?

Although I am alone most of the time I never feel lonely. I love the night and it's solitude. There is a peace in living alone if it is an inner and comfortable feeling. I also love companionship when I feel the need for it. My three dogs offer me more than a room full of inane people. If you are not content by yourself, then you are not happy with yourself.

I treasure my alone time on tour, there is nothing I cherish more then walking out into a strange city with just a list of possible good bars in my mind. It's how I make strangers into acquaintances.

The true solitary is not one who simply withdraws from society. Mere withdrawal, regression, leads to a sick solitude, without meaning and without fruit. The solitary of whom I speak is called not to leave society but to transcend it: not to withdraw from the fellowship with other men but to renounce the appearance, the myth of union in diversion in order to attain to union on a higher and more spiritual level-the mystical level. He renounces that union with his immediate neighbors which is apparently achieved through the medium of the aspirations, fictions and conventions prevalent in his social group. But in doing so he attains to the basic, invisible, mysterious unity which makes all men "One Man" beyond and in spite of natural social groups which, by their special myths and slogans, keep a man in a state of division.

My alone time is only in the shower and only about 70% of the time of it... :-)

While taking that shower, I solve the world problems. I turn the shower off and it all vanishes...

Everyone needs alone time. For me being alone in the mountains is just as important as having friends there. You have to really have a personal relationship with yourself. Long conversations with oneself are a plus.

Walden anyone?

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Henry David Thoreau

Not to mention most lines that have to do with being alone and finding your true self in his book...

With that being said,
I thrive when I'm alone. Interesting project, excited to see the turnout.

pseudo intellectual,
cliche,
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In solitude rests sovereignty.

"All men's miseries derive from NOT being able to sit in a quiet room alone."-- Blaise Pascal

I guess this sums it up...

Being alone is fine. Feeling alone isn't.

I love being alone, it makes me feel independent, the freedom it is...alone time does die hard...

This is cool. I'll be able to see what the difference is. I've never been able to before.

I love my alone time. I was an only child, so I definitely had to be creative and find ways to entertain myself. My fiancee and I spend SO much time together (we work and live together) but he falls asleep way early and I am a night owl, so I always get some nice chill time.
Being alone too much however, especially if it's not really by choice, can drive me a little crazy!

I used to occationally go on a lone camping trip, just for the night. My parents thought it was really wierd, I just thought it was fun time in the outdoors with no one else to spoil the peaceful solitude.

I've had this theory for a while regarding when someone is ready to be married. They have to be strong in themselves, comfortable with and by themselves before they can be happy with anyone else.

People too often rush into marriage because they are both lonely... personally I think that's the wrong reason to get married and is only doomed to emotional problems.

Love yourself first... then your love can overflow to someone else.

So true. Everything good I've ever made was a result of being alone. There are so many more psychological levels too it. The solitude that poverty creates can also be a big trigger to creativity and sense of self.

I have always loved being nocturnal.. why? It started when I couldn't make the time switch from Japan/America... then I found that it's fun when I'm the only one up but was not truly alone if others were in the house sleeping. It's Pho-alone, I guess. But it gives one alot more freedom than if everyone was awake.

Now... Well, old habits die hard. almost 9am, time for bed.

EVEN THO SOME PEOPLE FIND IT HARD TO DO, EXISTING BY ONES SELF IS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT AT TIMES VERY EASY TO DO.. IF ONE IS AWARE OF THEIR SELF-AWARENESS AND ABLE TO CO-EXIST WITH THEIR SURROUNDINGS. SOMETIMES IT ENABLE ONE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR LIFE IS AND WHAT DIRECTION IT IS GOING. SOME OF THE GREATEST MINDS HAVE DONE THIS AND SOLVED SOME OF LIFES GREATEST PROBLEMS.