What can be learned from the Last True Hermit

https://medium.com/message/ode-to-the-last-true-hermit-cdcf40975e29

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201409/the-last-true-hermit

I did examine myself. Solitude did increase my perception.

But here’s the tricky thing — when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. With no audience, no one to perform for, I was just there. There was no need to define myself; I became irrelevant.

The moon was the minute hand, the seasons the hour hand. I didn’t even have a name. I never felt lonely. To put it romantically: I was completely free.