Don’t worry we are still wearing our pajamas
I decided to restart my blog. The reason is simple; to remind my future self that life’s greatest secret, is learning and being limitless and to help you the reader, with a roadmap of all my trials and tribulations -
Chapter 1:
"Loneliness!" .
“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 (Extracted from her book "White Oleander").
I can sit here through dusk up until dawn writing about my life, but instead of flipping through briefly, the various topics, I decided to pick one and focus on that. The biggest challenge I’ve had growing up was being OK with loneliness. "When we grow up-we grow apart". I am going to repeat that because it’s so impactful, “when we grow up-we grow apart”. I still to this day, I get sucker punched by the right hook of loneliness from time to time, which leaves me facing the ground and that is OK.
In a recent blog I read, that loneliness goes part and parcel with the perceptions I encounter. Fascinating ain't it? The sliver of information which truly attached itself to me was the fact that loneliness causes oneself to have a low esteem. With having a low self esteem it causes one to lean on unhealthy ways of living. I for one am a victim to such unhealthy behaviors when I feel lonely. I and many people in this vast world, binge eat. This results in a cataclysmic chain of events- such as if I overeat, then I don't feel like working out- then I don't feel like sleeping on time or "I can skip one day of showering". Sounds familiar?
I found it’s so important to, have an impenetrable circle over a large group of shadows. What’s my remedy to cure the sickness of loneliness (A note to my future self):
Change my perceptions:
Listen to music:
Cry (Ja this is OK):
Connect with my close circle:
Last but not least, be disciplined and bite the bullet- at the end of the day I’ll have ammunition for those who step on my new white sneakers.
I leave you fellow reader with an open innovation to connect with me on all my social media pages and I'll lend out a hand if you need it and so- dear self-with this knowledge and to you I Salute!
References
Blog post on loneliness:
Quotes on loneliness:
Picture of Ms. Janet Fitch:
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