Efficient Loneliness
Life is universal. However, each individual being, living or non-living, determines life or living separately. Amongst humankind there are three basic states of being/living, individualism, aloneness, and loneliness. Under these states human beings struggle through life questioning its meaning and one's own fulfillment. This is the existential human dilemma that all experience and seemingly deal with together by forming societies. In individualism one is essentially a participant in some or even all aspects of society. Aloneness is a pause from participation. Loneliness, which is much different from aloneness, is absent of direct participation. The number and expansion of ways human beings are able to live through and deal with their dilemma are greatly limited when dependent upon participative society. The courage and ability to cope with the dilemma in the most efficient way imaginable is found in loneliness. Individualism is "self-affirmation". It is the separation of one's way of life within participative society from another's in the same society. It is affirming one's place within, not distinguishing it from the society as a whole. It should not be mistaken that "self-affirmation" is a self-centered process, nevertheless,
Human beings often encounter aloneness in the face of a tragedy, even this aloneness has the potential for the discovery of one's true self and meaning. Yet, it is a societal reaction to provide these lonely situations with company and social obligations. This is a reaction that assiduously allows individuals to escape their own dilemma by delving into others' (III, 47). The escape from looking at one's self in aloneness, judging one's self, allows for the judgment of others. No true, meaningful relationship can transpire from judgment. It is curious how one can be judged or defined by others when one's self cannot even conceive of such abilities in the consideration of his/herself (II, 93-94). Nonetheless human beings are so submissive to the judgment of others. Resulting in even more anxiety is guilt, which in society, will always exist and add endlessly to the dilemma (I, 52-53). The chance that the pause of aloneness gives man is overwhelmingly limited on account of the anxieties produced by society. The true horrid fear of loneliness is fed by anxiety, it requires great strength to overcome. But it is far easier to downplay one's periods of aloneness and return to an empty society of non-being. The perception of the world completely changes in loneliness. Everything is vivid, new, and engulfed in beauty. Every experience and encounter is full of joy, humanity, wisdom, and enrichment. "When one has been sharply isolated and lonely, every moment is pure, every sound is delightful, every aspect of the universe takes on a value and meaning, an exquisite beauty. The expansiveness such a life provides is outstanding. No energy is taken away by anxiety from one's dillema, within one's discovered self there is no dilemma, only life. Loneliness and its encounters provide new energy for life. It is efficiency in every aspect of the word. Many under the realm of weak individualism experience periods of aloneness or contemplation of their societal whole, its conformities, and their own lives within it. Aloneness is a physical or psychological sense of separation that can occur very often, even if only for brief seconds at a time (II, 18). The magnitude of these periods of recognition, recognition of the reality of one's own life,
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Approximate Word count = 1514
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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