Alone, Alone, Alone.

I like to be alone at times. Me being alone is not me being lonely. Alone is complete solitude, isolation from the outside world by choice. Lonely is being isolated by others. I feel that it is very important for one to be alone because there is no other way to learn about oneself than being alone and away from all other influences. Even being alone in our rooms is not enough because we all most likely live with at least one family member thus solitude may not last as long. I believe that in order to be completely alone, you must go to a place where there is nothing around but nature and silence for silence is the biggest canvas for your thoughts. Living in Chicago provides minimum access to quiet areas like these. Either one is distracted by the noisy planes above, the cars speeding down the street, or the everlasting sirens approaching a tragedy nearby. Nonetheless, this place exist. Once you find this place of complete isolation, you have nothing left to do but to associate with yourself. You can only think and express your thoughts to yourself, you can only talk to yourself, dance with yourself, and potentially get to know yourself. If you see a bee coming towards you, you will react the way that you would react, whether you are afraid of bees or not. If you are a male and you see a flower that you find to be beautiful, you will speak "Oh what a pretty flower" and pick it up all the while forgetting this role of being a male that society has put into your head. Solitude is the only way we can find ourselves because who we are now are complete figures of influence. Most of this is not us and the little bit that is took the biggest inner struggle of going against the majority.