¡°A characteristically human trait,¡± writes zoologist Tadaaki Imaizumi in The 21 magazine, ¡°is our capacity to think of others.¡±
But how delightful not to have to, he adds wryly.
We are social animals ¡ª but how refreshing, restorative, maybe even choice-worthy over society, is solitude!

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