[JustMatthew]

> Like everything else, our lives need to have a balance between socialization and solitude.

Beautiful post, and I think that line encapsulates quite perfectly what any thinking person should keep in mind when it comes to discussions on solitude and socialization.

The difficulty of achieving that balance is that it differs person to person, and culture tends to compound the difficulty of achieving the perfect individual balance.

Imo, self-knowledge and the self-confidence it helps canalize offer the only navigable route through the overpowering currents of culture towards that island of balance.