Introduction
Choosing Solitary Isolation
The Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude" resonates deeply; it describes a type of loneliness that is a chosen solitude, while other forms of loneliness include the solitude of being misunderstood and the solitude of lacking love.
The soil has not been unkind, and the solitary tree remains robust; whether it is lonely or not seems to be merely a matter of others' perspectives.