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May 1, 2021
“A characteristically human trait,” writes zoologist Tadaaki Imaizumi in The 21 magazine, “is our capacity to think of others.”
But how delightful not to have to, he adds wryly.
We are social animals but how refreshing, restorative, maybe even choice-worthy over society, is solitude!
The magazine devotes almost its entire April 9 issue to it. There’s good solitude and bad solitude, happy solitude and sad. Is the solitude chosen, or is it inflicted? Are you temperamentally suited to it, or not? Does it hang like a shadow over you, or beckon like a sunny day through an open window?
Good or bad, it’s spreading. Shrinking families and new technologies that free us (or cut us off) from collective engagement all favor it; the COVID-19 pandemic enforces it. Once the choice of hermits and the fate of unfortunates, solitude is now as mainstream as its opposite community.
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