Great comment. Solitude and loneliness are different things. The former can build you up, the latter tear you asunder. An article from the New Yorker that was p

Great comment. Solitude and loneliness are different things. The former can build you up, the latter tear you asunder. An article from the New Yorker that was posted here a few months captured the sentiment: > Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns. I'm currently three months into a stretch of solitude as I focus fully on building an online business. While not prone to loneliness, there are films I won't watch and songs I refuse to play because they remind me too much of friends and loved ones. Which is to say, loneliness is like a lever that you have at least some control over. But it still stabs at you unexpectedly sometimes. Although perhaps saudade is the better term for this feeling. And I'm not too sure if it's an entirely undesirable emotion. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/double-solitude http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/double-solitud... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade