During
an interview, a Spanish actress suggested that there should exist
within the educational system a class of solitude. To learn to cope with
solitude, or even to value and enjoy it. It might at first sound
strange, but I think it's rather an intelligent idea.
I
am not sure whether is viable to establish such a class as part of the
elemental education, but I feel that children and teens ought to learn
to be comfortable alone as well as being sociable, a fundamental and
excellent formation.
Excepting
few problematic cases of isolation, most youngsters are, by
definition, sociable, communicative, easily establish relationship with
companions, and have tendency to the formation of groups. All that is
evidently positive and an instinct of the human species. Unlike
animals; some enjoy living in groups, others choose solitary existence.
Most
modern day adolescents don't seem able to be solitary, maybe don't
even know how, much less enjoy it. They want to be popular, defined by
the number of 'friends' they have, they want to be constantly
communicating even there's nothing new to communicate, they want to
belong to a group or several, whatever they are ...
I
think certain doses of silence and solitude are necessary and
beneficial, not to say indispensable, for personal growth and
reflection, time and space to pursue one's own ideal, hobbies, goals.
Only when there are hollows and gaps to fill, can one strive and
advance.
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