There’s no electricity or heating, and the running water occasionally cuts out. The island is certainly remote-to get there, one must take a train from Glasgow to Oban, then a ferry to the Isle of Mull, followed by a bus and a ferry to the Isle of Ulva, and finally an eight-mile walk along a rough hill track to Gometra, which cannot be completed during rough spring tides or when the bridge is lifted. Roc Sandford, who lives alone on a farm on the Isle of Gometra in Scotland, says he first moved to the island in 1992 in a bid to escape neighbors. “Flee into your solitude! You have lived too closely to the small and the pitiful,” he wrote in Thus Spake Zarathustra. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who claimed, “I am solitude become man,” believed that isolation was necessary to be truly free, to allow one to become an individual and make conscious choices rather than follow the crowd. Thinkers too, often do their best work alone. One of the most famous solitary figures, 19th century figure Henry David Thoreau, wrote, ”I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude,” In the Bible, Jesus wandered the desert alone for 40 days, and countless monks, from both eastern and western religions, have chosen an isolated life. There’s a long history of choosing to live in solitude, often for religious or spiritual reasons. Since they died, he has remained in the village by himself. “It was unoccupied anyway,” he told the People’s Daily. Liu used to have neighbors but, when they moved away in 2006, he stayed behind to look after his ill mother and brother. Four years ago, he moved into a stranger’s house when a wall in his courtyard collapsed.
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