A Positive Look at Loneliness
September 13, 2007 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Comfort Yourself
Loneliness is awful, it can feed your depression, it can riddle your body with self doubt or even doubt about the value of life. I have always tried to keep busy when I feel lonely – going to the shops, reading a book, watching a film, ringing a friend. Then my best friend said to me…”you know you shouldn’t fear the silence…learn to embrace it. After all there would have been times when you would have loved to have some time to yourself in the past”
She has a point…so I hear are my positive thoughts on being alone.
- I can read the Sunday papers in peace.
- I can choose what I want to watch on TV.
- I don’t have to make tea if I don’t want to.
- I don’t have to pick up the towels or clean the toothpaste from the basin each time I go to wash.
- I can relax without feeling guilty.
I am not saying that I love loneliness, I am not saying that I don’t miss him SO much but sometimes you have to try and find some positives so that you don’t fear as much.
