Self-Companionship: Embracing Alone Time
Recently on social media, seeing as the 14th of February is approaching, most of the conversations had are around how they need a partner so they can “tension” (the act of producing content to evoke jealousy from your viewers) people with pictures of their love.
These seem to be light-hearted comments (or are they🫨?), but it always makes me remember this saying from Jean-Paul Sartre;
“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company”
This saying challenges us to face ourselves and cultivate a relationship with it that is nurturing, forgiving, and accepting, something people don’t do a lot of these days.
What Jean-Paul said, suggests that loneliness is not a product of physical solitude but rather a reflection of one’s relationship with oneself. If you feel uncomfortable when you are in solitude, it could mean you have internal issues or a lack of self-appreciation.
The quality of our solitary moments serves as a mirror, revealing how we perceive and value ourselves when external validations and distractions are stripped away.
