You gotta learn how to be alone.

You gotta learn how to be alone. Cause I learn more about myself in 1 year of being intentional than I did in 28 years before. 1 year. 1 year of damn near isolating myself. 1 year of not depending on people to make me happy. One year of sitting on myself, facing myself. And it taught me more than my whole life up to this point. When you're always around people, you never really meet yourself. You're always adjusting to somebody, always being some version of yourself based on who you're around. But when you take all that away, when it's just you, that's when you find out who you actually are. Yeah, it's uncomfortable because you have nobody to distract you, nobody to fill the silence. It's just you and all your thoughts that you've been running from. But if you sit with it long enough, something changes. You start hearing yourself think.. You start figuring out what you actually want, not what everybody told you you want. You start healing things that you didn't even know were broken. You start building a relationship with yourself that you never had. Once you learn how to be alone, you stop accepting things just because you're scared to be by yourself. You stop settling. You stop chasing people who were never good for you. Cause you're no longer afraid of your own company. And that's when you become dangerous in a way where nobody could use your loneliness against you. Anymore, you learn how to be complete on your own. And that's a piece that most people never find. They never had the courage to be alone long enough to find it.