Selkirk's regrets had shifted during his four…

1708 CE

Selkirk's regrets had shifted during his four years and four months of isolation, from the immediate panic of his abandonment to the crushing reality of his solitude. He had spent his first eight months in a state of severe depression. Rather than building a shelter inland, he had stayed paralyzed on the shoreline, staring at the horizon for sails and bitterly regretting his pride.

As the years drag on, his deepest ongoing fear is the loss of his own humanity. He worries he will forget how to speak or descend into madness. To combat this, he had turned to his remaining possessions, forcing himself to sing psalms and read his Bible aloud daily simply to hear the sound of a human voice.

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