Independent of our preference for soltitude we can miss a person in our life, or the abstract concept of that idea. It's not really exclusive. For instance I c

Independent of our preference for soltitude we can miss a person in our life, or the abstract concept of that idea. It's not really exclusive. For instance I can sit in my living room, happy that no unknown people are around me, while at the same time missing to be with that special someone. Maybe being with other people would reduce that feeling of emptyness, but more likely than not it would just be irritating. I don't like the word lonely. Neither does it express what one actually misses (parents? lover? just not being alone in the room?) nor does it really tell the truth. What he has should be called something like withoutherness, not loneliness.