People have different beliefs about how important companionship and solitude are in life. In general, human beings like to have the company of others, hence they use each other company, which might be the reason why human beings are called social animals. But have you ever wondered what does this mean? or If it is necessary to be in company of others? Now, here comes the role of solitude in life. No argument can be made about needing companionship and how very vital it is to live, but simultaneously, solitude also plays a significant role in people lives. People need that solitude occasionally, just to have a healthy state of mind. So, let see how these two inevitabilities fulfill their role in people lives.
Companionship is a healthy emotional state when the person engaging in it, is coming from a stable, healthy place. “We have the need to love and be loved, which contributes to the need for companionship” said the renowned human behavior researcher, Helen Fisher, who has an interesting take on the companionship. She says that some people love another person to get a sense of completeness, security, and affection. Others love to share what they feel for the other person. This need to share necessitates the need for companionship. Sharing love is all about empathizing, communicating, and engaging with others. Additionally, Janice Ray, a writer and environmental activist thinks, that a person can have the forests as companionship as well “Like a beloved friend, the more you
According to Henry David Thoreau nature is a man’s company. Through solitude, he claims that people do not look at their surroundings. Being very observant can give us an advantage to what nature offers us. In society, solitude can serve as a learning experience and change the way people act with one another. Henry David Thoreau spent time alone in his cabin out in the wilderness, and began to realize a few things that we humans are careless about.
Being isolated from people can be a scary thing. Imagine when life doesn't go one’s way, not having someone to talk to. Some people can be extremely affected by not having someone by their side. In the novel of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, George and Lennie are friends, and both depend on each other, but Lennie may depend on George more. the author suggests that over time, being isolated can negatively affect one’s feelings by making individuals have bitter thoughts because they long for a companionship that they never had.
Living in such a privileged country people tend to forget the great importance of reading and writing. For Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and Sandra Cisneros they were trapped in a world where society defined who they were, they were deprived of their identity and were expounded to the lowest expectations of society. With the curse of not knowing was followed by the gift of intellectual integrity to rise above society's expectations. Being born into a life where your future is defined by the civilization around you can supply a person with the state of loneliness. Malcolm X was born into a time where his race was impudent, he was raised in a rough neighborhood.
As humans, we crave social interaction and a sense of being loved. When we don’t have that, we become lonely. To feel loved, we often fall in love with people who don’t even know us, or we fall in love with
A couple with companionate love, love each other deeply, and in a mature and enduring way. This genuine love allows each member of the couple to be their true, authentic selves, and to develop trust, along with shared dreams and plans for the
Whether Timothy Treadwell would have ever considered himself a transcendentalist or not, we’ll never know, but Werner Herzog paints him as such in his film Grizzly Man. Herzog took pains, through editing, to present us with a man who followed his heart, over his head, into nature as he rejected society in the pursuit of the deeper truths he thought he could find through life with the bears. Like the darkly romantic and anti-transcendentalist Herman Melville, Herzog himself seems to reject this view, finding in nature not transcendent beauty but only hunger, chaos, and death. The way Timmy saw nature was that is was wonderful, that it could harm him but if he showed who was the boss, nature would leave him be.
People need authentic human interaction to be truly happy. This claim is supported by the novel, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the film, Pleasantville directed by Gary Ross, and the article, Why Loneliness Is Bad for Your Health by Nancy Shute. In Fahrenheit 451, people need authentic human interaction to be truly happy. This is supported with Montag and Mildred’s relationship and how Mildred says the parlor walls are “really fun” (18), but she still tried to commit suicide.
Loneliness can affect people's self esteem and lead them to take many bad decisions.
By finding contentment in others, one can feel secure in the knowledge that their relationships are sure, they are cared for, and the relationships won’t lose value over time like an object
Loneliness is a term used to describe a person 's response to lack of human contact. In the short story "Mrs. Brill" written by Katherine Mansfield, the main protagonist Mrs. Brill suffers from being lonely. Mrs. Brill journeys to her local park every Sunday in hopes of escaping her aloneness, by people watching the park goers. She familiarizes herself with the Sunday band that plays music and the conversations among the people around her. The interactions between the strangers brings joy to Mrs. Brill but when a young couple belittles the fur piece worn by the lady, Mrs. Brill cannot help but fall back into her solitary state of mind.
It is vital as people need to have a sense of belonging and acceptance from their social group such as family and friends to prevent form loneliness. Worse still, a new research suggests that loneliness and social isolation are as much a threat to our health. (Gupta, 2015). The next level of needs is self-esteem needs such as achievement, independence, status, prestige and managerial responsibility
Everyone in there life experiences the theme isolation vs. belonging, through life there are many situations this comes up in, everyone wants to feel like they belong but a lot of times there isolated and alone. More times than not people feel alone and do not like it, belonging to something makes you feel accepted and wanted. Starting at young age this concept comes up just when kids are playing there are a group that are playing no child wants to be the one left, as you get older into school there are cliques and everyone wants to belong to one no one likes being the loner. Even as an adult all there friends could be getting married and having kids i'm sure the one person in the group friends hates being the single isolated one with not even
Loneliness is a strong word, however it means a lot to be lonely. The definition of lonely or loneliness is sadness because one has no friends or company. In the novel Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck shows that Crooks, Candy, and Curley’s Wife have loneliness because they never have company or friends to talk to. These Character’s show that loneliness is a problem that must be overcome in order to live a happy, fulfilled life.
University is a vibrant place, the freedom of which many adore and cherish, however, it turns out that university life can be far worse to people who cannot cope with loneliness. Recently, a nationwide Canadian survey (American College Health Association, 2016)1 finds out 69% of university student struggled with loneliness during the school year, and sadly, 44% of them said it was difficult to function, due to loneliness caused by their inability to find company. Though it is inappropriate to assert this is the case across the globe, it is not difficult to deduce every undergraduate in the whole world is likely to face aloneness, given similar situation they face: they leave high school, their old friends, their beloved family, they bump into a place that they are not familiar with, then some of them find themselves trapped in aloneness, consequently, in loneliness. The best way to cope with loneliness, instead of avoiding aloneness, is to convert the feeling of loneliness into solitude.
Loneliness is not apart of it because i think that you just can 't choose to be lonely if you 're lonely anybody can just come and talk to you to see what 's going on with them and easily change that, but they dont so thats why i say that personal choice only apply for isolation.one other reason why people choose to be lonely is because they are very focused on what they want to do and don 't have time to socialize with other