alone
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
A man is born alone and dies alone and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.