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lil  ·  3851 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lil's Book of Questions: When Have You Felt the Most Free?

Society vs Solitude

There's freedom in solitude (especially the wee hours kind of solitude) until it becomes oppression and we look for a different kind of freedom in the company of others (until it becomes oppression and we seek soitude.)

Your comment made me think of Thoreau's words,

    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.
But Thoreau lived a short way from town and went regularly to see his friends and have dinner with his mother.