“Alone. Yes, that’s the keyword, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King
I like how this was said because someone’s worse enemy is not a murderer but aloneness. There is a psychological understanding when we look at the word alone. According to the dictionary, the word alone means isolation from others, although this can be felt by having no one near a person in a person’s mind, both have effects on a person’s mental state. When I look at the word alone, I see two categories, the state of being alone among others and the state of being alone with yourself. Each affects the mental state of a person and we can use these ideas in our writings, I know I do. In my next two blogs, I will look at these two states in detail and show how we can use them in writing. I do find that so many things can go horribly for a person and there are so many evils that we could come across and write, but the idea of the word alone I do believe is what people fear the most, even the end of the planet does not put as much fear into a person as the word alone.
What do you think about the word alone?
