Standing alone doesn’t mean I am alone. It means I am strong enough to handle things all by myself.
Standing alone doesn’t mean I am alone. It means I am strong enough to handle things all by myself.
Being alone does not always mean you are lonely and being lonely does not mean you are always alone.
Becoming your own best friend is one of the most important of all skills in life, for a host of valuable reasons. In the growth required to befriend oneself, one learns countless lessons that all amount to the proper toolset upon which to stand in life.
Starting with the health issues, if you are truly befriending yourself, your choice of food to consume, vices to include or exclude from your regimen, exercise and mental fitness programs from which to spark personal growth, goals and dreams towards which to accelerate, and personal tools and resources required to weather the harder chapters of life, when they turn up on your doorstep in personal or professional arenas, could not be more important.
One might profess to be self sufficient in many categories, but when they are fully immersed in a situation that may prove to be overwhelming, those claims are most certainly put to the test. When things become overwhelming, we either drown or grow.
Handling things all by yourself is both a discipline and an art. One that is ensconced in a personal pride and determination that generate fortitude against any of the potential intrusions that foist themselves upon us in life. In these quiet moments of personal tenacity, we are put to the test and man becomes analogous to steel. When we lose our temper, we collapse.
The purpose of sharing ideas on a daily basis struck me as a solution to helping to change the world one thought at a time. I find these subject matters interesting and in my opinion, there are very few common places for others to find these kinds of nonjudgmental philosophies from which to learn. In my complete honesty, living a life that is mostly alone, these communications are part of a personal regimen to communicate with others something more than a “hey, what’s up?” Banal banter doesn’t connect for me, so in my quiet solitude I find one of these morsels daily from which to spawn a daily check in with others.
If you are living alone, and you are strong enough to handle things all by yourself, remember that part of that journey is still a meaningful communication with others, regardless of any personal or professional reliance.
Happy Saturday!
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