On being alone and on boredom.
A discourse inspired by Seneca’s Letter 10: On living to oneself.
It is alone that one’s true nature comes out. It is when one is alone that the state of one’s mind and soul surface. Notice how I say “alone”, and not “by oneself”, for one can be by themselves without ever being truly alone. Being by oneself while working, listening to music, or in any other…