"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the
religion of solitude." -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
On being Alone
~~Miss Roxie
It was something I never really minded.
I did like to find my way around a new place
with a slower gait then others.
Although it was nice to have a friend
now and then,
being alone offered unparalleled spatial auras
that tumbled themselves into
just a dimension passing
quietly ...
in reading, the sound of music,
photographs real and otherwise
called daydreams,
grazing in the grass watching clouds dance,
star gazing in the night air,
Alone was never bad to me.
Now,
on being lonely,
well, that's another thing altogether, isn't it?
"Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it".....
Simone Well
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About famous people--maybe the knowledge that your plight is known by someone, that you were noticed, by "someone important" and not forgotten? I imagine it must feel like even God has abandoned them. Not many people maintain a real, living sense that God is right there with them. So aknowledgement from a famous person has to fill in.
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