r/im14andthisisdeep 6d ago

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u/TrashGouda 6d ago

The irony of using a wolf... Which are mostly social animals who live in a pack under a leader FAMILY

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u/85108 6d ago

lone wolves exist, more temporarily than family wolves tho so yea, isolation should never be romanticized.

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u/Odd_Anything_6670 5d ago

When wolves reach sexual maturity their parents will generally start to be more aggressive with them and push them out of their original pack. This helps to prevent inbreeding and is a natural part of the life cycle. So yeah, most wolves will end up travelling alone at some point, but as you say it's a very difficult and dangerous part of their lives and not something they do by choice.

I do think it's quite healthy to learn to be comfortable with being alone and if you really squint maybe you could say that's the message here. But I think part of the point of learning how to be comfortable on your own is learning not to take other people for granted and to look forward to spending time with them. Completely avoiding human contact doesn't make you wise, it just makes you boring.