Isolation

Isolation is both objective and subjective.
One can be secluded from other people, and one can feel alone in a crowd.

Isolation is both negative and positive.
It can be used to cast away, to quarantine the sick or imprison and tame the dangerous.
It can also be self imposed and sought after. Used by hermits and mystics it can be a tool for introspection, discovery, concentration and meditation.

Isolation is all this, and it is also the aspiration for what could be, what will be. The empty theater waiting for actors to enter and animate the scene. The intellectual and literal odyssey of the traveler longing for home after a never ending journey.
Isolation is a state in between, a promise of change.