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Cian O Reilly's avatar

I was immediately reminded of a song I like

https://open.spotify.com/track/2C6QUOsR7PfEm3EpXOLvjv?si=fWrRuITbSEue7OsgBcPTyQ

This feels very relevant to me having just moved in with 2 other people, after having lived mainly alone for the past few years. It's only been 4 days but so far it's weird. The vibes! Had my first alone time today cos my houseys are away for the day and, oh boy, all the emotions that'd been hiding started shaking out.

To me alone time is reset/unwind time. I have a mentor who once spent 3 years living entirely alone on an island in the Philippines. His whole human persona thing just walked out the door. Sounds to me like heaven.

Arriving for a year in Tokyo at age 21 sounds like heaven. My first solo trip was at the same age, to a zen monastery where I lived for 3 months. A different kind of alone. In meditation. Other human bodies around, but each going right inside their own selfhood.

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Mr. Raven's avatar

I was skeptical of the whole vibe cloud thing when you first mentioned it, but you are pretty convincing. Extreme loner here, who lives alone in the wilderness with his dog.

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