Examples Of Solitude

Solitude and the thought of being alone are starting to become obsolete in our world. The increasing use of technology has made people so reliant on their phones that they cannot imagine a life without them. Technology is taking away our privacy by keeping us constantly connected to one another, this constant connectivity has created a fear inside of us. The fear of being isolated from the outside and being alone. During the romantic era, people practiced solitude by following Trilling’s belief “that the self is validated by a congruity of public appearance and private essence” (Deresiewicz 3). The soul needs friends so it can express its feelings but the soul also needs to be alone. People need to have a balance of socialization and solitude. Socializing helps the soul to share its thoughts and feelings with other people. If the soul keeps depressing emotions or thoughts bottled up inside it will eventually explode causing destruction to itself and others around them. Solitude helps the soul discover who its true self is by being alone with its thoughts, going to the dark places of the mind. Romantics used literacy to find oneself, they were also literal with …show more content…
During the 1970’s and 1980’s you could send children out to play in their neighborhoods and not have to worry but now it is unthinkable for a child to go outside and run around their neighborhood or go to the park by themselves without a cell phone. We are being isolated by the fear of not being in contact with someone or not being able to get in contact with someone. Mostly everyone today owns a cellphone and can be in contact with another person in minutes, children even have cellphones. This fear has created a society of not being able to be alone and to also have a fear of