I am very much an introvert, but this irked me somewhat
Sara Maitland: 'Savour solitude - it is not the same as loneliness'
Admittedly, this is somebody who was a favourite novelist of mine (I probably would still enjoy her novels) and then I read A Book of Silence (2008), and see I concurred with Ursula Le Guin that there was an awful lot of privilege involved in her search for elected silence to sing to her.
I felt it was possibly at this particular moment a bit off, tone-wise, to say woez people are incapable of appreciating solitude when so many people are probably desperate for a small amount of alone-time, being banged up with family/room-mates for an indefinite duration and unable to get away for more than (possibly) a very limited period.
I'm personally finding it a bit scary that I'm hunkering down rather like the being in Kafka's 'The Burrow'. Though not, of course, entirely solitary.
It is particularly ironic that insofar as I had a New Year's Resolution, or an intention for this year, anyway, it was along the lines of trying to be a bit more social. Hah.
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