Interesting Guardian article on loneliness/aloneness ...

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Oops only got the picture! If anyone can post the whole article I'd be grateful (awful at teckie stuff).

Here you go

I don't know if it's just me, but I didn't really get it. I don't understand what the point of her article was. She's chosen to live alone and have little interaction with others. And? So what?

toffee I skimmed read the article before I posted the link and didn't get it either. She's chosen an unconventional lifestyle, not one that would appeal to the great majority of us IMO, but so what, indeed?

Is she saying that it takes strength to be alone? I'm not sure either does she enjoy being alone? I don't really understand either

Sounds like a deeply dysfunctional way of living to me. As the comments say a book will be along soon. A long overly descriptively verbose book all about her introspective musings on day to day average things like going to the gym.

Oh bloody hell, if it's the authors musings on loneliness...just please no

As the comments point out, there's a difference between loneliness and solitude, which is what Hayley is doing. So the title is misleading.

I disagree. She sounded damaged and unhinged.

I thought it was interesting. Yes it is a strange way to live but perhaps she was so unhappy in her previous state that she needed this complete stripping down to the bare bones of life before she can rebuild her life. Also perhaps her extreme lifestyle is a way to highlight how loneliness is an epidemic in this country. Perhaps connected to the rise in mental health problems. I don't know if anyone watched this programme about 4 people choosing to take part in a solitary confinement experiment. For a few it was almost impossible but for others it was a fulfilling experience and they came out with real insight. Perhaps modern life has become too loud, no room for silence, with extroverts at the front and others falling by the way side. Or alternatively I'm reading too much into it! 😂 And need to get out more!

I read this and thought it was a depressing and pointless piece of drivel.

Profoundly depressing.

I hate the guardian weekend things. they always have pointless pretentious articles by people going on about how edgy they are because they apparently invented polyamory or veganism or parenting
or introversion. As someone in the comments section said, how long has she done this for? Come back when you're 45 and bored out of your skull with going to the gym 6 days a week.