Self Isolation

Seasons have their lexicons; with this season has been the words;

• Lockdown
• Corona virus
• Stockpiling
• Hoarding
• FTSE 500
• Grounded
• Self isolation
• Quarantine e.t.c

Particularly, the most used word apart from the Corona Virus will be Self Isolation!

The word isolated comes from the Latin word Insula, which means island. By that definition it is imperative to say that spending time on an Island presents some form refreshment to the soul.

While Isolation may imply being alone, let me Introduce the word SOLITUDE. Both words may imply being alone and similar in definition but are very different in such great extents.

Isolation is usually activated or forced by external extremities BUT Solitude comes as a result of the personal intrinsic choices.

As the tide of self isolation passes, that is the first phase... I would love you to move on to the Solitude! 

For you know by now that energy can neither be created nor destroyed but converted from one form to another... Solitude allows for expansion and freedom of thought, providing the chance to soar above the ordinary in order to come back to the world refreshed and reinvigorated. Isolation contracts the walls and makes a prison, draining the will and leaving you exhausted.

Anthony Storr puts it this way - “The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.”