Welcome to another meeting of Loners Anonymous. It's been a few years at least since our last meeting -- wow, time sure flies when you're all by yourself doing nothing, doesn't it? Anyway, for today's meeting I've made a giant pot of vegetable soup, and I must say it is fabulous. There's enough for all of you, even though I'll be the only one having any since the whole point of our group is to not get together. On today's agenda is a discussion of how spending time alone is so underrated in our society, even more today than ever before.
Non-loners believe that being alone is indicative of a problem, or else why aren't you out with a friend, or better yet a group of friends, doing something fleeting (shopping, lunching, watching a movie, kayaking) to pleasure yourselves? Of course we all know how this thinking is pure folly, since the only way anything of merit gets done is by one person at a time, working alone. Even a solitary bike ride nets greater physical and mental results than one where you're riding two or three abreast, chatting. And any of us could list the great works of art and groundbreaking novels created by one person, working alone. Even the wonderful movies that may end up with a boatload of names in the credits started with a script written by one person, or maybe two these days as the value of solitary work falls further out of favor.
I'll admit it's hard to stay positive as a Loner, since unlike gays, transgenders, the handicapped, the obese, and all other minorities, we are still viewed as having "something wrong" with us. Silly, isn't it? People who opt to get their healthy breasts cut off and their perfectly fine genitals horribly mutilated are applauded for "being who they are," while those of us who prefer to stay home with a good book instead of overeating and getting drunk at a party are considered slightly off, nutty, weird, and not all there.
Well, that concludes today's meeting. Above are some photos I took (all alone, natch) of the changing scenery around my house as spring begins to yield to summer here in Maine.
No comments:
Post a Comment