“Aloneness is not folly; it is necessary to enjoy company.”
We start this second episode of “inhabiting the world”, with a quote by Giorgio Gaber, an Italian composer and song writer who saw in aloneness a necessary element in one’s inner life, the space from which to connect successfully with others.
Aloneness is the concept we are going to reflect on today; aloneness, as the Collins English dictionary says, as the state of being alone: unaccompanied, solitary, without companions. The word takes a very interesting connotation when we look into its etymology. Alone is a contraction of all ana, literally all one, all wholly, wholly oneself.