Home Alone, Watching Home Alone

A Rant. An Unapologetic Defense of Solitude

De: Bill Tarino

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Home Alone, Watching Home Alone

A Rant. An Unapologetic Defense of Solitude

What if being alone isn’t a problem to fix?

What does it really mean to be home alone on Christmas?

While the world gathers for holiday traditions, family dinners, and forced cheer, one man stays home alone on Christmas Day. Not by accident, not because he was forgotten, but by choice. He spends the day watching the 1990 Christmas movie Home Alone and reflecting on why solitude is so often misunderstood, pitied, and quietly judged.

This short read is a first-person autobiographical essay, written as a sharp, reflective rant about being alone without being lonely. It challenges the assumption that solitude equals sadness and questions why society treats time alone, especially during the holidays, as something that must be explained or fixed.

Through personal reflection on family expectations, social obligation, loneliness versus solitude, and the pressure to perform happiness, the author explores why being home alone can feel more peaceful than being surrounded by people. Christmas becomes both a setting and a symbol. A day that exposes how deeply we fear silence, independence, and opting out.

This book is for readers who:

Are tired of being pitied for enjoying solitude

Feel lonelier in crowds than they do alone

Want permission to stop explaining themselves

Believe quiet can be full, and absence can be intentional

This is not fiction.
This is not self-help.
This is not a holiday romance or inspirational story.

It is a quiet, unapologetic meditation on choosing solitude, written for readers who are tired of being asked why they are alone, tired of sympathy they didn’t request, and tired of pretending that happiness must look a certain way.

There is no dramatic transformation.
No reunion scene.
No lesson designed to comfort anyone else.

Just one man, one Christmas Day, and an honest examination of what it means to live alone - and be completely okay with it.

If you’ve ever been alone on a holiday and felt completely fine, this book will feel uncomfortably familiar.

You are not broken.
You are not behind.
You are not required to explain yourself.

Sometimes, being home alone is not a problem.

It’s the point.

It is exactly where you’re meant to be.