Good morning! Time to get out of bed and start making today a great day! May be a day to spend some time with yourself! Being alone is a skill, a skill that comes with life experience, one that you must learn in order to survive those inevitable single moments, those Friday nights where you don’t feel like going out and those times when nobody else except you wants to see that movie. This is about being completely and utterly 100 percent by yourself and being okay with it. There will be days where it will feel like every single person around you is out doing something without you, where nobody is answering your text messages and when you are hungry, but nobody can join you for dinner. What’s everyone up to right now? Why aren’t your friends answering your texts? Isn’t anybody else as hungry as you? Who can you call to talk to about your day or that moment of eye contact you made with that cute person? These thoughts, this reliance on other people to entertain you and validate you, will do nothing but harm you in the long run. This is not to discount the beauty of having amazing friends, a great relationship and an active, fulfilling social life. This is merely to say that sometimes the only person who’s available to be with is yourself, and you have to be okay with it. The key to being alone without being lonely is wholeheartedly accepting yourself. With alone time, you are forced to reflect on yourself and on your thoughts, and you won’t feel the need to run away from either of those things if you are secure in and love and accept who you are. Don’t focus on what everyone else is doing. Focus on what you are doing, what you are thinking and what you are feeling. That is what is the most important. You won’t be able to be alone without being lonely until you realise that, hey, you might not be so bad to hang out with after all. Is everyone going out tonight but you are not feeling up to it and you would only want to go to “show face”? Don’t go. Is your mind subconsciously telling you that a night in with Netflix is more appealing? Do that, instead. Is there a new movie out that you’ve been dying to see but your friends think it’s lame? Go by yourself. Indulge in popcorn, too. Remember, what you want to do is the right thing to do and you don’t need confirmation from anybody else to do so. All you have to do is accept that it is right, and this only comes from accepting yourself :-) youtu.be/9P7meD4LY3g
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 05:41:30 +0000
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