Why You Should Get More Comfortable with Being Alone
We need to know ourselves to improve our relationships with other people.
Last week I overheard a conversation whilst I was trying to write in a coffee shop. The girl was talking loudly on the phone, trying to convince a friend to come into college the next day because another friend of their's would be alone 'all day' if she didn't.
By this point, I had stopped what I was doing and began to ravenously eavesdrop on the conversation, making notes of sentences spoken in a draft folder. You never know when snippets like that may come in handy. It turns out they already have.
As the girl was talking to her friend, I began to hear loud, clunky coughs coming down her phone. The friend then said, 'come on, don't you already feel better? I'm sure your lateral flow test would be negative by now' and reiterated their other friend would be alone if she stayed off another day.
Despite her friend having Covid, the girl still wanted her to come in to prevent their other friend from being alone. It all seemed bizarre — albeit very teenagery — as I was gently sipping on my dirty chai, wittering away notes from their conversation into a draft folder.
