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“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.”

{Janet Fitch}

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“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”

{Carl Jung}

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Well, folks? Who’da ever thunk I’d discover that there is, indeed, such thing as “World Solitude Day” … aaaaand TODAY’S the freakin’ day!

Meanwhile …

As far as I’m concerned, loneliness is rarely ever about the empty “physical spaces” within which so many of us dwell. Rather, it’s about the empty space in a person’s soul where they carry the weight of all the unspoken words and truths they’ve managed to convince themselves not to “think, speak, or feel” because they simply don’t feel safe enough to share them with anyone, including themselves.

In my experience, however, true healing and growth are about spending as much time as is necessary to figure out what matters most in your world (regardless of who you either do or don’t dwell in your spaces with) then learning how to SPEAK it ALL so that YOU are no longer alone with it! It’s how you let yourself be truly SEEN for what and who you really are, which (ps) in the oxymoronical twist of all twists is, indeed, how YOU attract the most important person in your life who you will EVER be in a relationship with …

YOU! 

… aaaaand THAT, my friends is how you become the BEAST who is “alone” but not “lonely“! Thoughts? Drop me a comment if you dare! I’d love to hear from you.