Can You Stay Alone For Life?

The most fundamental question a man asks himself, often. Can he remain alone for his entire life without being destroyed by it? On the surface, that question begs another: why would anyone want to stay alone for life at all? When you're tired of commitments, when the burden of responsibility curdles into liability, when every relationship suffocates you because of how you were wired since childhood, you would rather remain alone for the rest of your life. The human mind is wired to seek company. Youth deludes you into thinking you can go it alone. That you need nobody. But as you age, you realize how hard it is to come home every day to an empty house. Such discussions are aplenty. Books are filled with them. Countless TED talks preach the importance of companionship. Real life experiences back it up too. But if a man chooses to live life alone, how does he do it? There has to be a way, right? This thought has dominated a good part of my headspace for a decade now. Not a week goes by…