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Most people will live their entire lives never having ever been truly alone. Even when you are in your house or apartment alone, you still know there are peopl

Most people will live their entire lives never having ever been truly alone. Even when you are in your house or apartment alone, you still know there are people in the neighborhood or walking down the street and we don't really appreciate how much of a comforting effect this has on us. I have only felt truly alone twice in my life. The first time was on a platform installation in the North Sea. Imagine being surrounded by all these huge machines and pipes running autonomously without a human being in sight. The second time was at the bottom of ocean in Monterrey bay when my diving team had all disappeared to go back to the boat and I found myself with just 3 feet of visibility and no one else around. Both times, I felt an impending sense of dread and panic creeping up on me. It was like being in room 101.

kafkaesque 12y ago
I go hiking alone. Most people think I'm crazy (for some reason I don't understand). There have been times when there was absolutely nobody. Actually, I enjoy going hiking really early (say, around 6am), because there is nobody. But I find pleasure in it. As the article says, the environment and landscape help me transcend my feeling of loneliness. On a side note, I may be a slightly different case, because I suffered some traumatic/dark experiences when I was a child. The feeling of anxiety and fear was crippling, until I found I could cope with it if I voluntarily search it out when I am feeling well. So, this feeling of hiking in the dark, being alone, and isolated helps me control and overcome my fear and traumatic experience. The only drawback is that if I don't do this every so often, including exercising, I can slip back to some depression.
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- itsameta4 12y ago
  >for some reason I don't understand If anything goes wrong, there's a very high chance of you being found dead. Happened to my friend's brother.

kafkaesque 12y ago

I go hiking alone. Most people think I'm crazy (for some reason I don't understand). There have been times when there was absolutely nobody. Actually, I enjoy going hiking really early (say, around 6am), because there is nobody. But I find pleasure in it. As the article says, the environment and landscape help me transcend my feeling of loneliness. On a side note, I may be a slightly different case, because I suffered some traumatic/dark experiences when I was a child. The feeling of anxiety and fear was crippling, until I found I could cope with it if I voluntarily search it out when I am feeling well. So, this feeling of hiking in the dark, being alone, and isolated helps me control and overcome my fear and traumatic experience. The only drawback is that if I don't do this every so often, including exercising, I can slip back to some depression.

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itsameta4 12y ago
>for some reason I don't understand If anything goes wrong, there's a very high chance of you being found dead. Happened to my friend's brother.