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.
I think it's as much in autonomy as it is in freedom. Preferably, I always want to choose whether I feel like interacting or not. A friend of mine lives in the apartment next door and he randomly comes by with a cup of coffee to hang out. Most of the times I don't mind but I often just want to be alone and I'm not gonna be the asshole to tell him to leave me alone.