Left alone, it’s only a matter of time before we start to know ourselves better. It’s something we’ve all gone through so recently – I can’t help but feel we should be better at it by now. Since the pandemic ended, most people have returned to their previous social patterns, forgetting what isolation taught them as a mode of self-preservation. But for some of us, before, during, and after the pandemic, solitude has left a more lasting impression – solitude not only of the body in space, but of the soul within the body. Illness, specifically, can do this: separate the essential from the ephemeral, the being from its flesh.
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