The picture of this article comes from the film "The Fox and Me"
The life of the cocoon has been miserable since the time of "Chen Qing", but I feel very comfortable when I have the opportunity to be alone. The main thing is to feel that spiritual freedom can be boundless.
There is too much time in life to be alone. As long as it is not a monk, people's lives can only be trapped in two circles, one is a family circle and the other is a work circle, and there is no opportunity to be alone. Life like Thoreau's can only be made by deliberate choice: a period of time (he spent two years and two months), a place to be found (he chose Walden Lake among several alternative locations), to get rid of the mundaneities of sentient beings, to meditate and write in the woods, to feed himself. After entering the modern era, this way of life is simply unbelievable. Heidegger and Hrabar both had their own cabins in the forest or in the mountains, where they meditated and wrote, but they could no longer talk about self-cultivation.
It is not terrible to be physically lonely, it is terrible to be lonely in the soul. I mean that the soul does not communicate with any one specific soul. Even when Thoreau was alone on Walden, he still had a few friends. Being alone in material life is not only quiet, free from the distractions of the world, free from all trivialities, and a quiet mood, but also can be highly productive and have more time to read and write. But if the soul of the person is completely alone, the feeling will be relatively cold, and when someone communicates, there will be a soft feeling. Therefore, the Friend of the Soul is still indispensable.
In short, man's best state of life is material solitude and spiritual communication, which of course includes not only concrete people, but also all those good souls who have passed away, as Nietzsche once mentioned: "He does not need companions, and sometimes he is with people, only to subsequently better appreciate his loneliness; as a compensation and substitution, he can live among the dead, even among the dead friends, that is, among the best people who have ever existed." "However, it is not enough to communicate with deceased souls, because you do not get an impromptu reaction to the times and circumstances in which you live from them.