The little box named solitude
3 October 2007, 9:28 pm. View comments. Filed under Miscellaneous.
Are there times when you feel secluded from the rest of the world, sitting in your own little box labelled "Solitude"? Do you like it? What do you do when that happens?
I don't know. Being in an overly-strict family, I don't get much of real social life. Whilst I like being around friends, there are times I feel like blocking the rest of the world out and be on my own. When that happens, I'm usually sitting at the computer designing or coding for hours.
And then I have strange thoughts. If the world spins on and you're left behind, are you young or old? In other words, when time doesn't seem to have an effect on you, are you eternally young or do you become an ancient ghost? Forever 17 or 1486 years old? Would you like to be immortal? To see all the people around you aging and dying? There'd be new people, but they come and go... What would become of you?
On comes along a striking idea: what if everyone else in this world are fake? And you're nothing more than the character of a game. Your whole life is just a show; you live and you die, what's the entire point of all this? This has been in my head ever since watching The Truman Show, and it accompanies me when I'm in that little box named Solitude.
My novel idea. Maybe for NaNoWriMo.
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I don't like the feeling of being in solitude for too long. Sure, there are those days in which I just want to be left to my own vices but I much enjoy the company of others I love rather it be my friends, family, or boyfriend.
I don't think I would like to be immortal. I was watching The Green Mile, Tom Hank's character is given immortality but when his wife and friends die and he pretty much left all alone. I think that would lead to a sad life. -
The sad thing is that I have thought of that. I'm not sure if it's because my family is so strict, and thus, my having no social life... but a lot of my time is just spent thinking about the weirdest of things.
I like to think about people and their motives and sometimes I even question my own.
I need to get a life.
But hey, it's a great idea for a novel, I must admit! -
I prefer to live until maybe around 80 or less, as long as I've a family of my own with me =)
If this was a game, then I have no idea. This question pops in my mind loads, as if we are in fact able to reverse things here and there.
I live in solitude at home most of the time, but I love to interact. But I'm stuck in the box more since my sister isn't here anymore.
Wow, a cool idea for a novel. -
I'm always in my little box. It happens rarely that I let someone in and I almost never go out. I'm not very social. =)
Sometimes I would like to live forever just to see the world changing. But then, I do think that losing the people that I love, especially because there is not many of them, would break my spirit. And I would rather die than let that happen. -
I have given eternal life some thought lately, and I must say that I would LOVE to live forever. I think seeing how the world changes wold be fascinating.
Ooh, I just thought of my own idea for NaNoWriMo! -
Rilla, I normally live in that little box. The only time I come out of it is when I choose to. I stay in the box by choice. The world today does not offer anything in the way of companions that I want. I come out of my box to spend time with the few friends that I do have and then I go back into the box. This is my choice. I have no desire to live outside my box. I enjoy watching the world from inside my box.
Now you can decide whether I am teasing or not.... -
I really enjoy some "me" time - I don't know why some people feel the need to constantly be surrounded by others.
When I was younger, I used to think the world revolved around me - people only did stuff when I was around and could see them doing it. The Truman Show was kind of scary! I could just imagine it actually happening, and then they make that movie to see how you would react to it.
I need to think of an idea for NaNoWriMo if I join... -
Like Kaylee, I enjoy my 'me' time, but it's always nice to get out and hang with friends. I'm trying to come up with a plot for NaNoWriMo, but I can't come up with anything. It's weird how my imagination is full of ideas before I signed up, but then after I signed up I couldn't remember any of them.
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<3 introversion.
Your story idea reminds me of a time I tried to imagine an RPG from the perspective of the NPCs. What if the game was rewritten from *his* point of view? One run in with this crazy, spiky-haired protagonist and then you'd go on saying the same exact line, over and over and over, for the rest of the storyline...or not!
Mundane, but I still think it'd be neat. -
I like being alone every once in awhile. When I get in one of my moods, I "disappear:" I don't answer my phone. I don't respond to "let's do _____ today," emails. I just kind of stay in my room (or go shopping or something by myself) and mind my own business.
When I was little, I thought that maybe I was the only real person and that everyone else was ... a little minions whose existence was of no consequence. -
I actually enjoy being by myself. There are times I like to be social, but for the most part, solitude is my friend. I take that time to recharge my batteries, let off some steam or just forget reality for a while.
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You're doing NaNo too! Eeee! *excited* That kind of idea sounds thrilling - and you can do so much with it, too. Oooh.
I'm the kind of person who <em>can be</em> social when the opportunity comes up, but otherwise prefers the lonely side of things, y'know? I don't really like overly social things; the box is where I like to be most. Introversion seems to come naturally, and it feels a heck of a lot more comfortable. But it's definitely the whole personal preference sort of thing.
Mmm. Immortality.
Now I need to brood on my NaNo idea as well ... and procrastinate some more ... -
There is also called being a hermit you know. Not that I'm one but America is in a state of fear. Especially with alot of stuff going on.
Sometimes I like being alone for sometime which calm and relaxes myself.
Only time i come out my shell is going to certain events.
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Wow that's actually a pretty cool idea for a novel O.O
And yes I do sometimes hide in my little box. A little box you call "solitude" but for me, I guess I just trap myself in my own little world yet to be given a name. I guess "my own little world" would work for the time being.
And when I trap myself in this world of mine, I usually find myself secluded from the world around me, music streaming into my ears, sketch book in front of me and my pencil twirling around my finger.
As for young or old.. I guess you'd be ageless won't you? If you were to be immortal you wouldn't really be able to count the years since there is no limit to how old you can become and as time crawls past, you'll find yourself to be a sad, sad, undying soul trapped in the cage you call time, forever wishing it would all end.
And that my friend, is my 2 cents