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Learn to enjoy your solitude
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My home is 5 minutes away from a lakeside park. It's surrounded by green trees and lawns, decorated with full blossom of all kinds of flowers and perfumed with their fragrance every spring of the year. People do jogging and angling alongside the lake, practise shadow boxing and aerobics in the woods or simply lie down on the bench and enjoy the beautiful time of a day.
Yet somehow I just cannot appreciate it. Not because I have an excessively high standard in judging beauty or I am a typical lazybone or indoor person who doesn't want to go around very often. It's because either I don't know how to enjoy my solitude or I don't want to be left with such a dazzling great place all by myself.In my eyes, a beautiful scenery without a congenial company around to share with is in itself incomplete.
For once, I thought I was right to bear such a lofty taste of life. Yet the reality responds negatively. Perhaps it's just because I am being too sentimental sometimes.
The other day, I was chatting with one of my friends met here in Dio. She pointed out something that I have been aware for a long time yet do not wish to speak out. I am too dependent on talking with one or two of my friends, sometimes make them annoyed because they also have their own schedule to follow.
Well, I denied at first, attributing the causes to my long-term home staying. Yet after an introspection, I think she had her points, though not entirely.
The truth is I just don't relish being alone, ignoring the fact that I am well fed and dressed without concerns that haunt the rest of my peers. Yes, social life can be challenging and exciting yet it's also not without weariness and vapidity. You can't have the cake and eat it, so you have to make full use of what you have at the moment.
Sometimes the idea still strikes odd to me. Because I fear that if my fondness goes all out to enjoying staying with myself, I would turn my back on the outside world. Well, now I realise that this is an extreme case. One should learn to get along well with yourself. Because most of the time, we are on our own. That's one of the important elements for personal charisma as well.^_^
So let's try some exercises tomorrow morning, shall we? ☼
Post comment Comment (5 replies)
- Reply Nina01
- I have been Shanghai recently, visiting a friend. It is fascinating to be with a friend, yet it is also wholesome to be alone and do some thinking in solitude. Anyway, always tell ourselves to enjoy the moment.
- Reply Teddy126
- Nina01: I have been Shanghai recently, visiting a friend. It is fascinating to be with a friend, yet it is also wholesome to be alone and do some thinking inLong time no see, Nina
I can't agree with you more
It takes time to reshape one's character as well as his state of mind
I am doing it right now
- Reply Edelweiss
- When I saw the title I thought solitude is an important part of your life. But it seems that you are still on your way to it. Hope it will become your best friend someday.
