Existentialism Of Being Alone

Being alone, according to Rilke, is not a curse but a blessing. It is the only way in which man comes closer to life, and to himself because he can have a closer look at things. It is what makes him aware of his subjectivity. He is not an object. He sits aside and thinks about everything carefully whatever comes his way. It is he who decides the value of everything because he is the subject. Nothing escapes him. It is the experience which man can turn into something else, something positive. And if he is blessed, or in other words, able to understand his experiences, he can create. The struggle of loneliness is optimistic in this sense.
Most of the artists, writers, and philosophers are solitary in their real lives. It is only because of their solitariness that they are able to find their own meanings in life. When they are thrown into life and its meaninglessness, they confront it courageously. They do not fear it but love it because it helps them to understand themselves and the others. It does not mean that there are …show more content…
He exists only through his actions. He exists only to the extent that he realizes himself. He is his own project. Therefore, he is always in the process. And he can only realize himself when he realizes that he is condemned to be free. There are no excuses. He has nothing to rely on (Existentialism is a Humanism 37). He comes to know about something else that was not known before. He is confronted with loneliness. He is, naturally, curious and terrified. The layers within him turn themselves out. He is able to understand himself as a new being. He is able to perceive the change within him. A stranger appears who was not anywhere before. And the stranger, then, will not follow what has been there before. He will try to know about what is not known. It becomes his only wish. He exists through this struggle that continues all his life, and surprises him at every point. He is able to know about his