The man lived in splendid isolation on an island. All Alone.
As he bathed in the morning he thought of how his colleagues would be swarming about their workplace. He smirked as he imagined how they would envy him if they could just see him all solitary.
He fantasized as he chopped wood in the afternoon of how his parents would beg for his forgiveness and for him to return home. He sneered how his ex-wife would resent him being able to manage by himself.
As he ate his dinner at night he snickered as he thought of his so called buddies silently burning with jealousy at his completeness.
He lived all alone.
A month later, after he started living on the island he saw a fisherman landing on the shore. He ran excitedly towards him. He spluttered, “I live all by myself on this island. You must be wondering how content I must be? How come I have no need for anyone else?”
The fisherman looked at him. And walked away.
The man started crying.
human is social being!
Isolation, here is the key word.
The man mentions, he has no need, of any being, for his existence!
The truth is exposed in the end.
Dr you have very precisely pointed out how this man reacts upon being ignored, rather left to himself!
The difference in Isolation & Solitude has been brought out beautifully. Simply said, in the former you are alone but LONELY in the latter you are ALONE but peaceful with your own-self.
Loneliness is a state of mind marked by feelings of isolation, emptiness, and an undeniable urge to receive attention from any/another person.
Solitude, on the other hand, is a creative state of engagement with oneself, used for inner reflection and growth.