What if you choose to be alone but don’t feel lonely?

I’m indigenous Canadian, 100% Ojibway from northern Ontario and I really don’t mind being alone.

I have several great uncles who lived to be in their 70s and they lived out a good part of their lives on their own on the land. One great uncle I remember spent entire winters on his own at his family’s remote camp every year. He’d stay out there for about four or five months with no one, then come back to town, live very quietly preferring to be alone, then go out again the next winter. None of it was forced, his wife was gone and his kids were grown, he could have gone to live in town with his family but he didn’t want to. He preferred being alone in the woods and leading life like he had when he was younger. He did that for about a decade until he physically couldn’t any more and had to live the last five or six years of his life in town.

He was alone, I don’t think he was lonely that much and he lived into his 70s.

I remember several elders who were hunters and trappers that did the same and lived long lives in the wilderness.