Being Alone Doesn't Have To Mean Being Lonely

As I sit here on this overcast Sunday afternoon I realized that there are a lot of us who are alone. We may have family, we may have friends, we may have beloved pets. We may even have spouses but we are still are alone. 

Being alone is not a bad thing or something that needs "fixing." I was an only child and I was alone a lot of the time when I was growing up. My father was an absentee parent for the most part and my mom was hopelessly addicted to the life she found in the Quasar Motorola TV set.

There were worlds to be found in books and I embraced those book worlds and made them my own. I never felt lonely when I had a book to read. 

These days people feel less lonely because of their connections through the internet. And those connections aren't necessarily a bad thing.The just keep us more isolated from true human contact. 

It can be a safe place for a lot of us.If we don't like something someone posts on Facebook we can hide them or unfriend them.We can also pick and choose "friends." About 30% of my FB friends are people I knew from school in my hometown. Another 30% are people I actually know and have a true relationship with. The other 40% are people I have gathered from other FB friends. 

So I sit and write this as an introduction. I plan to make this a blog about the joys of being alone. I plan to share the healthy and wholesome aspects of living and thriving alone. 

I hope you will read my blog, comment and share your own experience with the joys of "aloneness." 

Lynn