5. DO YOU FEAR SOLITUDE ? (Three compositions - BACHILLERATO 1)

As humans, we are born surrounded by our family, then supported by our friends, and finally loved by our couple.

First of all, we are not born alone, and each one of us knows that there is that one person that will show us the bright side of things, even when they turn out bad. Yes, I am talking about mothers.

  Then, you may have more or less friends but you surely have at least one. I have to clear up that when I say ‘friends’, I mean ‘true friends’, not the guy who you first talked to two days ago and that just smiles at you at your school. With ‘friend’ I mean the brother that you never had. However, it is difficult to find people like this nowadays.

Finally, as we grow older, we find love, and we start feeling things that we had never experienced before. I am sure that we all have experienced these astonishing emotions which make us shiver from our head down to our toes.

Do I fear solitude? Of course I do, I am frightened of being alone, of having no family and no friends since I am a human. I believe that we are all afraid of solitude, and I believe that none of us could survive on his own for long.

                                                   By S.P.A

Everybody has wondered, at least once in life, if they fear solitude. I suppose that everybody fears the fact of being completely alone, in the sense of not having any friends and a social life. When we arrive at a new place, as a high school, our first concern is to meet people, to try to start a conversation just because we don’t want to feel isolated.

Nevertheless, we sometimes need our space and to be alone for a while, to be on our own and to think more deeply. It is not necessary to be surrounded by the crowd every single moment of the day; it may get annoying and stressing. In my opinion, our main fear is to believe that little moments of loneliness can become a deep isolation and last forever.

All in all, my answer is definitely that I do fear solitude, as I need people to talk to and, in any sense, to feel loved and appreciated, although I also need my private moments. It is not the same to be alone as to be lonely.

                                                                                                      By M.S.

I fear solitude. I'm afraid of being alone one day, without company, without no one to count on since I sometimes feel alone even knowing that I am not alone because I have great friends and a family. However, nobody knows what will happen in the future.

Referring to friendship, I am afraid of having no one to tell my troubles, no one to ask for help, no one to have fun, no one to hang out with… I think that's one of the worst feelings as friendship is necessary.

And about love, I’m afraid of solitude too. When I grow up, I would like to have a partner, to love him and have a family.

To sum up, I am afraid of being alone and feeling that way.

                                                                           ANONYMOUS

 I used to think that always telling the truth is the right option. However, we were talking about this in the philosophy class last day and I realized that it is very difficult to decide if you should always tell the truth.

On the one hand I think that if you have confidence with a person, you have to tell him the truth. You can be scared because you don’t know how that person is going to react, or how the truth is going to affect him, but it is the right option. If you really love that person you have to be honest.

On the other hand, sometimes people deserve more than the truth. Last day, a classmate told us the example that his grandfather is almost 90 and he has cancer. It is supposed that telling him the truth is right, but his family thought that he is very old and it is not worth because it would be worse for him, so he doesn’t know about his illness. In that case, I think that not telling the truth is better.

In conclusion, I think that always telling the truth is arguable. It depends on the situation, the person and, of course, the reason why you are going to tell, or not, the truth.

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