Loneliness In Accomplishment

Repetition of ideas shows how people think. And an often repeated idea is one of 'the loner' the person who does everything by his or herself. You know, the genius who figured out how to make the light bulb all on his own, or the writer who was also an artist and a leader, the actor who always performed their own stunts. Oftentimes these things are exaggerated, not just by the performer of the actions, but everyone else too. We all want to see a person who needs no one else to do amazing things.

I think to a degree we all crave loneliness in our accomplishment. Some might think that this because we don't want to share, that we are selfish. But I think it is a preservation technique. After all, life is essentially just learning things. No one wants to have to learn how to do something with a friend, and then learn how to to do it again, alone. Better to learn how to do it alone to begin with. Because despite the fact that your friend might be there to help you for a while, it is the very nature of our lives that we become separate. Cooperation is hard. But it is key to the strength of our species.