Solitude And Fantasy

Fantasy is an escape from solitude.  One cannot be in fantasy unless they are alone and not busy accomplishing something that requires their attention.  If you find your self in fantasy it is a call, an inclination to solitude.  A drink alone can also be an escape.  To be human is to need some  solitude, but our culture does not tell us we need it or what to do with it.  We "feel alone" and don't want that feeling.  We are taught to accomplish, to be with "friends" associates in some endeavor.  At times yes, but not all the time.  Our frantic pace in life, busyness, is in part that escape from finding a way to have the solitude that we need to be fully human.  Even a monk can stay busy and engaged in exterior things, choir prayer, so as to avoid that silence and solitude.  A walk in nature without purpose, that is, without trying to solve some problem, to fix something, can be solitude time.  Meditation without a focus can be solitude.  Alone is not alone.