Being Alone (Never Truly Alone)

I don't think you are ever truly alone. People feel alone all the time, but the human mind will never let you be truly alone. 

Even if you have internet access you are already not truly alone. Even by hearing someone's voice or seeing someone's face, or even reading text someone else wrote you feel an illusion of actually being with that person. In a way, at least. It's not total isolation, despite the lack of straightforward communication with a person, because it is a human being, you can see them, or hear them, or read their thoughts. This is already company. At least to your brain, it's not total loneliness.

Total loneliness is only reached if you are in a Robinson Crusoe situation. If you are completely cut off from humanity with no means of communication or even witnessing human activity, you can be considered alone. But at this point, your brain stops you from being "alone." People begin going crazy in total lack of human contact. Your brain may make you think that there are apparitions talking to you, you may begin to see things, you may begin to think God is talking to you, even if you've been an atheist your entire life. 

All of this is because humans need contact. People can say they don't need anyone all they want, but even the most detached mind will begin to spiral in the total lack of humanity. And that spiral of consciousness doesn't let one ever be really alone. There is always something, whether it's an illusion of interaction or a completely unreal creation of one's mind.

Humans need humans!!

- Yule