Solitude
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Nov 7, 2026
Charlie L.NARRATOR
In our language, loneliness expresses the pain of being alone.
Charlie L.NARRATOR
Solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Charlie L.NARRATOR
What happens to us in AA that makes it possible for us not only to endure, but to enjoy moments of solitude? What changes our loneliness to solitude? The love and understanding we find in AA are a protective curtain between ourselves and the aching loneliness of our drinking days.
Charlie L.NARRATOR
The first few weeks some of us spend most of our time in an AA club talking with others.
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Sign 10, you need solitude like medicine, and you feel guilty every time you take it.
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After enough exposure, you crave being alone the way a person underwater craves air.
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Solitude is the only state in which nothing new is entering you.
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But the moment you take it, guilt arrives.
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Because somewhere out there, someone might need you.
Tamsen FadalHOST
Autonomy, I love that.
Tamsen FadalHOST
Solitude, there's some solitude in it.
Tamsen FadalHOST
Yes.
Tamsen FadalHOST
Wonder,
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But being alone and loneliness are not the same thing.
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Solitude can be a conscious decision, a space carved out for yourself, a pocket dimension where you can grow endlessly.
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Let's start by highlighting the distinction.
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Loneliness is an aching feeling, a longing for connection, while solitude is the fulfillment of your own company.
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What if being alone wasn't a burden? What if it was a gateway to unparalleled freedom? Solitude comes with its own kind of liberation, offering you autonomy, independence, and the luxury of time to live life entirely on your own terms.
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Let's start with autonomy.
Nicole Zeola LoveHOST
Turn the focus inward, not outward.
Tina MarksGUEST
Solitude, yeah.
Nicole Zeola LoveHOST
Figure out how to stop paddling upstream long enough to turn your boat around so you can start to go downstream.
Tina MarksGUEST
And you know what the thing was for me? The number one thing was to feel safe.
Rabbi KrazHOST
Prishas means separated from the people.
Rabbi KrazHOST
Solitude.
Rabbi KrazHOST
But amongst the crowd.
Rabbi KrazHOST
You should be in solitude but amongst the crowd.
Dani FernandezHOST
The first guy or girl, I don't even know, said, independence, no one to argue with about future plans.
Dani FernandezHOST
Solitude, if you sleep in the shower, you might be there for days.
Dani FernandezHOST
Oh, that's a con.
Dani FernandezHOST
Okay, the pro was the independence, no one to argue with about future plans and solitude.
Amanda JoyHOST
It was a kind of maritime exile where only the constant was the sea.
Amanda JoyHOST
Solitude, especially in harsh natural surroundings, has a curious effect on the human psyche.
Amanda JoyHOST
Historians and psychologists have long drawn parallels between lighthouse keepers and the explorers of extreme environments, Arctic voyages, deep-sea submarine crews, and even space station occupants.
Amanda JoyHOST
In each case, prolonged isolation paired with the environmental stress can distort perception.
Amanda JoyHOST
between safety and madness.
Amanda JoyHOST
For the men who served within, keepers assigned for weeks at a time, these structures became both shelter and psychological crucibles.
Amanda JoyHOST
Solitude bore down with such a weight that it could fracture perception, blur time, and conjure the feeling that something beyond the wind might be watching back.
Amanda JoyHOST
Their legacy wasn't defined solely by what they built, but how those creations spoke to the outside world around them, bridging sea and sky with a quiet authority that blurred the line between architecture and myth.
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