Loneliness is a lack, a feeling that something is missing, a pain, a depression, a need, an incompleteness, and/or absence.
However being “intentionally alone” is presence, fullness, aliveness, joy of being, overflowing love. You are complete. Nobody is needed, you are enough.
Two lonely people who come together don’t feel the loneliness so much because somebody else is there. They remain lonely but somehow deceive themselves with the illusion that their void is filled. When two lonely people come together their loneliness multiplies.
Real love should not be a search to combat loneliness. Real love is to support and be with the other and thus you can create intentional seclusion. If you love a person you don’t try to fill them up and complete them by your presence. You want them to not be in need of you.
