Do you really know yourself?
Everyone needs alone time. It helps us to find ourselves. It helps us to learn who we are. It helps us to have time to formulate our opinions on life. It helps us to foster our relationship with God. It gives us prayer time.
We spend so much time with others. Whether it’s family or work or friends and even the constant access to media. News. social media, streaming, videos, reading, or music.
Do you know yourself?
We spend our lives attached to others. Then, when something happens like divorce, a break up, loss of a job, or death. We have no idea who we are without the other person.
Our beliefs, hobbies, joys and likes are tied up in the others.
Learn to take time for yourself. Remember when you were a child, before life, school and others imposed their view on you. What did you dream of being when you grew up?
What stories did you love the most? Did you travel? What places did you always want to go to?
Learn to enjoy reading. Reading is alone time.
Learn to meditate or workout alone.
Spend time in prayer. Talk to God. Do spiritual work.
Once you realize your need for alone time you will desire it. The ability to be alone and entertain yourself is power.
No one can take it away from you. Once you realize that you enjoy being alone, then ostracism is no longer a threat. You can be you.
If you cannot spend time alone, you should ask yourself why. Pray about it. What are you avoiding?
Some people cannot stand silence. They can’t stand to be alone with their own thoughts. They need music or the sound of someone else’s voice. They cannot stand awkward silences, and must fill the void with chatter.
Why?
This is important spiritual work. Ask God, why you can’t be alone with your thoughts.
Go for a walk in nature. Spend time alone there and let the thoughts flow.
Knowing yourself matters. Imagine dying, having never even known yourself.
You cannot heal from the trauma of life or the things around you if you do not know yourself or spend time trying to know yourself.
How do you know if you are healed or healthy if you never knew real self?
Are the beliefs you hold really your own?
Have you spent any real time formulating your own opinions on life or do you just parrot what friends and society tell you?
Alone time is valuable, and necessary.
It is a fact that we came into this world alone.
And it is certain that we will leave it alone as well.
Alone is our beginning foundational state.
Sometimes you gotta go back to the beginning to find yourself.
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