The level of socialization in this current dispensation has gone beyond shores, and it makes you wonder whether solitude has become abnormal or considered as a disorder. The reliance placed on socialization is born out from the notion that everyone needs that interconnectivity to succeed and spread beyond having fun, to constructive relationships that will benefit people involved. However, while this thinking is sustained, it is not absolute, as people’s personalities differ, contents of happiness differs also, and when it becomes this chaotic people look within themselves and enjoy their own company.
As trust is difficult to build, but more difficult to restore when it is broken, it could be personal relationships, business relationships or any human relations. A lot of people are moving away from socialization to building the walls of solitude, which means traveling alone, going for walk alone, having quiet moment to reflect, going for lunch alone, and literally like the serenity that comes with it. While people viewing outside may think such person is living unhappy life. This new concepts questioned the traditional conceived ideas on how people should live and interact, it travels into the future to understand how people have adjusted to focus on what makes them happy.
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Solitude may not come as overly a new thing, a bit of that was experienced during coronavirus pandemic, it gives people the practical idea of what it feels like to be into yourself. Loneliness is quite different from solitude, while people who are lonely are categorised to be unhappy, solitude simply means enjoying your own company, pressing the inner button to live out your life from that view. A lot of people are reneging from these traditional concepts, people are getting married but choose not to have kids or even prefer not to get married at all, the traditional shift on living on your own terms is creeping in gradually especially for younger generation.
While these ideas are fast rising in Europe and across America, especially for younger generation, it is still moving at snail pace in Africa, the deep rooted culture that defines each household in Africa, the rigidity of this culture carries identity and difficult to change to fit into what is considered as the new way to live. The younger generation who are mostly into this concept, are determined to live on their own terms while Millennials can argue that Gen Zs are selfish to have considered themselves alone and what makes them happy alone, it is difficult to have consensus, this is because the two generations are living in different time, that’s why solitude has found its stronghold with Gen Zs.
