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Comfortably Lost: Finding comfort in being lost
How I found peace in solitude
Things are quiet now for the first time in a long time, my mind isn’t screaming at me, I can finally sit alone with my thoughts and not struggle with guilt. I’m not anxious, angry, or drained anymore, I’ve done my best to mature emotionally, and handle things in a healthy way constructive way. How?
Through bringing myself peace of mind, balance, but most of all: Solitude.
Through solitude, I found harmony within myself.
I’m almost completely alone now, save a few faces, my job, and my family, but you can be in a room full of people and still have only yourself to talk to.
It’s a strange thing, being alone, intentional isolation, a self-imposed exile if you will, because being alone teaches you how to get comfortable with yourself, how to come to grips with what’s going on inside your mind so that when are alone, or independent, whatever you want to call it, you can actually be fine with it.
I cannot begin to tell you how many people I’ve met over the years that 1, always needed to have someone around them, or 2 that when they were alone they had to distract themselves because they couldn’t handle it.
