Loneliness is "isolation". Aloneness is "freedom".

Loneliness is having no one who gives a buck about you. Aloneness is you deciding what do you want to do on a Friday night.

I guess you just want people to care... without interfering with your coming and going.

But you know, you can't have it both ways.

Me? I'm not an easy person to "get to know". I live in isolation because I am not prepared to share things with people, to let them in... because I'm afraid that they are going to invade my life.

I feel lonely myself, but I don't want to risk compromising my privacy and let out stuff that I like to keep private. Call me paranoid, but I think that a lot of people have their own little agenda these days. So I push people away instead. It's my only defense.

But I think I'm happier that way. Weighing the pros and cons, I think that loneliness works better for me.

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I hope you find what you're looking for.