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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IndyPendant" data-source="post: 3318344" data-attributes="member: 8738">I have experienced both loneliness and solitude.  Loneliness is hell.  Pure and simple.  The absolute worst time of my life, and the source of the greatest misery I have experienced, is when I was truly lonely.  Solitude is...golden.  It's a quiet time, to spend recharging.  Peaceful, a time to just...be.  The difference, I think, is choice.  People choose solitude.  Very very rarely to people actually choose to feel lonely.That having been said, I have sometimes wondered what it would be like to truly belong to a group.  Because of my past, my inner nature, and my lifestyle preferences, I have never truly felt a part of any group of people--and I probably never will.  Does that make me lonely?  Sometimes.  Unhappy?  Very rarely, if ever.Sometimes though, I wonder if I'm somehow missing something.  Possibly like the person blind from birth thinking about colours, I notice people who seem to truly be a part of a group, who look like they truly belong.  And I wonder.  Are they deluding themselves?  And if not, is this something I should be sad for never having experienced--for literally being unable to experience?I am neither beast nor god, but I do cherish my solitude.</blockquote>