He who is alone has no company.
Solo is a term in our language that comes from the Latin word solus and has several uses. When applied to an individual, it refers to the fact that said subject lacks company .
For example: “I'm alone at home, my parents went out to dinner,” “I don't want to go to Ciro's party alone, will you come with me?” , “I don't understand what a child is doing alone in such a dangerous place.”
live alone
As human beings are social beings , loneliness (the fact of being alone) is usually considered negative. In this way, it is common to point out that someone who lives alone does not have another person to accompany them, help them or support them. That is why it is often suggested that lonely people look for some type of company .
Loneliness is one of the most delicate issues in human life, and generates controversial discussions between those who are in favor of it and those who consider it a worrying symptom of lack of social skills or depression . We are so used to letting ourselves be governed by rules and impositions, that we often forget that there is always the possibility of redefining any concept, that the truth is not something absolute and that no one can force us to feel a certain way.
They teach us what love, friendship, loyalty is; We are told that we need to find our other half to join her and spend the rest of our lives together, and all of this puts a lot of pressure on us that only some can successfully overcome. The thing is that an instruction manual is not attached to this endless list of mandates, and so we do not know how or when to begin our search, or how to know if we have already concluded it; But we are sure, as we have been told, that "being alone is something negative and depressing" , that "we must escape loneliness at any cost."
Different situations
It is important to note that the word can only denote two very different situations in this sense, and we must distinguish them in order to fight against the aforementioned social impositions: being alone, which simply speaks of the absence of other living beings around us, something that does not It is inherently negative ; feeling alone, something that arises as a response to the lack of people who do us good, who listen to us, who complete us.
We are not always physically alone when we become lonely in life; On the contrary, it is more common to experience this lack of understanding when we are surrounded by people who do not care about our well-being . In other words, we can decide to be alone, but no, feel alone.
A guitar solo is the fragment of a song where the sound generated by the guitarist stands out.
Other uses of the term alone
Alone can also be something that is considered separate or isolated from other things , or that is unique among the elements or individuals of its type: “A dog alone cannot make such a mess: surely a pack entered” , “The chard sandwiches, Are they served alone or with garnish?” , “When I bought the coffee maker, they gave me the machine alone, without the carafe” .
In the field of music , it is only the fragment of a song that a musician performs in isolation . The guitar solo in a rock song, to cite one possibility, consists of the part of the composition in which the sound of the guitar stands out. In a choral composition, on the other hand, there may be a fragment that only one of the singers must perform, for which they usually separate momentarily from the group.
Solo is also the name of a volcano located between Chile and Argentina and of several fictional characters (such as Han Solo from “Star Wars” and Solo from “Cannibal World” ).