Of morons and oxymorons...

A chance encounter with the word pair "Solitude and loneliness" led me on a trail for more such word pairs. I have struggled for several days now with the likes of these words and despite repeated attempts, have never quite been able to put the matter to rest in my head. These words keep coming back to haunt me and despite ruminating on the subject for several days, i have not been very successful in transferring the thoughts in my head onto paper. Nonetheless, in the hope of giving rise to the crude framework of my initial idea, i have finally decided to settle for something less than what i wanted, as i try to define my thoughts with words. It is now that i have a sense of insufficiency because i have been unable to find words to do justice to my thoughts... but as i continue to struggle with the concept, here is preview of my thoughts and any inputs on the same are quite welcome...

Solitude and loneliness
Courage and imprudence
Naive and honest
Candid and rude
Defeat and surrender
Acknowledgment and acceptance
Optimism and faith
Tolerance and disregard
Indifference and Ignorance
Non conformist and weird
Intuition and faith
Patient and passive

An "oxymoron" defines a combination of seemingly contradictory or incongruous words. The word pairs listed out above are not oxymorons and, perhaps do not have a general nomenclature to define them, but then, there is an underlying theme that runs through these pairs of words. Given a thought these words could imply completely different and contradictory meanings. From what i perceive, these words differ from each other in the mere involvement of a subject and the exercise of conscious will. To exemplify,

Conscious choice can make loneliness (a rather undesirable state) into solitude (which is a rather treasured commodity) !
An action carried out with full awareness of the consequences is courageous while the same action carried out without awareness of the fallouts is a sign of imprudence.

The interesting paradox here is that, in our daily lives, the manifestations of both these attitudes or actions is the same. The underlying human element is the only one which distinguishes the two and that, is often hidden under layers and is more often than not imperceptible to us. We thus often base our conclusions on these seemingly correct parameters without quite ascertaining the right reasons for our judgments. Thus, based on such fall-outs, a moron could be considered equivalent to a truly honest and gifted person, merely because the repercussions of both their actions appear identical through the tinted glasses which help us see the world, though the underlying thought processes are completely contradictory.

I hope to get some clarity on the subject and get back to this post but till then, this is all I have...