Truly being alone

[Scythe13]

I'm loving the programme Alone, that I spoke about previously.

Granted there is a lot of people living alone, doing not much, and hunkering down for the rain to pass. Lots of snivelling and crying. So while watching it, it does make you laugh a little. But the truth is…being 100% alone is HARD!!! Not just being alone, but having to survive alone.

Everyone says that they could do it. They talk about how hard it would be to survive, but the loneliness wouldn't effect them.

To this I say…there is a 1% chance you're right. But for 99% of people, being alone is HARD WORK!!!

Imagine being unable to speak to another person, being unable to ask for help, advice, or anything. But also being unable to have social security.

Human contact has been shown to produce happy hormones in our bodies. Without this human to human interaction, our bodies can start to shutdown certain emotions. This is one of the reasons that so many lone survivors have befriended animals as companions. Whether it's domesticating cats or dogs to be semi-house trained.

For anyone whose going to say that they can cope being 100% alone for any length of time, I would happily call them out on that and see how they cope on a 3-5 day solo camping trip in an unknown area, with minimal gear.

If you've never done totally solo camping, then you would have no idea how the mind can play tricks with you. When I'm ratting in the pitch black, my mind goes off on one and I imagine 5 foot high giant rats scurrying around trying to kill me! Seriously, your mind is made to create fear, because it is that fear that helped us create houses and the alike. Our fear of safety caused us to create front doors to our caves. Then walls, and the alike. The mind is your most powerful survival item, but it is also the one that will wreak the greatest havoc on you.

Watch alone, consider that these people are likely more experienced than the majority of us, and even they are breaking down and crying.

Opting to not interact with people is fine, because you can always reverse that decision. But having that decision taken away from you…that's when things get really bad.

Watch Alone, and if you think it's easy, try solo camping for a weekend in bad weather. For legal reasons, I recommend you do not try this, as it could well go wrong and you end up dying because there is nobody out there to hear you fall into that gorge, or to hear you freeze to death. So for legal reasons I highly recommend you do not try solo camping…even though I love it (one of the reasons I love it is because of the fear it produces).