It’s Ok To Be Alone
As she woke up in her one-bedroom house in the woods, she clicked the button and the electronic blinds started winding up, the light entering and the pitch-black darkness of the room retracting and disappearing.
She opens her glass-framed door and steps out onto the balcony to get some morning sunlight, she gets out her yoga mat and starts to meditate for 15 minutes.
After she meditates, she puts on her shoes, goes downstairs, and goes along her usual morning trail, no phone, no electronics, just her and the trees and the fresh air.
After she’s back from her walk she gets out her yoga mat and does 30 minutes of her daily mobility routine in the sun. The leaves lay on her like spots from the sun causing a shadow from the trees.
She finishes and goes inside to make a superhuman health drink, allowing it to settle she goes and has a 5-minute cold shower. Now she’s fully awake.
It’s total silence, peace, calmness, tranquillity.
She goes up back to her balcony and looks over the horizon smiling, closes her eyes and takes in a deep breath “Ahhhhhhhh” — peace… total peace. It’s like this every day.
We’ve been told a lie, a scam, a manipulation, a false tale. You have to enjoy being around other people. You have to. If not, then you’re labelled as a weirdo, an outcast, a loser if you spend most of your time alone.
This is one of the biggest scams that has been injected into our programming for too long.
Being alone is strange, unnatural and confusing.
Through social media, news, movies, and songs, I’m constantly hitting us that we have to be around people and being alone is something that should only be in the toilet, the shower or sleeping.
It’s a scam that has infected our psyche. There is no right or wrong answer but there is nothing wrong with being alone or wanting to be alone.
That doesn’t mean shut every human out forever and go live in a cave. It means be deliberate with who you’re spending your time and giving your energy to.
We give give give, but forget to replenish.
We need time alone to create, think, wonder, explore and many other things.
We won’t get anything done if we constantly spend time with other people. To truly get things done and create meaningful work, we have to spend that time alone, with ourselves and nothing more, nothing less. To go as deep as we can on whatever we are doing.
It’s healthy to spend time alone, recharging is a thing, our bodies run on energy, our soul, our sprint, our mind. We have to protect it and be deliberate with its direction. It’s not for free, but we give it away like it is for free.
It’s perfectly ok to spend time alone, even if you’re married, even if you have kids, even if you run a company and are responsible for thousands of people and their way of earning a living.
Time alone = time well spent.
How are we ever meant to know ourselves if we don’t?
Until next time,
Brody
