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The Social Butterfly’s Guide To Being Alone
Mastering self-reflection can level up your personal growth.
Alone time may look different to everyone. It depends on the sort of person you are. For some, it may be a refuge. For others, an inconvenience. For everyone, it should be beneficial.
I didn’t own a journal for 97.83% of my life. I never once felt I needed self-reflection. I just looked forward to the next social event. In the past year, however, I’ve plunged myself into a typically introverted arena — writing. Since then, I’ve learned the high value we should all place on alone time. It adds an essential calmness to everyone’s lives — social butterfly or not.
There are, I hope, people out there who have been forced to look inward in the past year. This article is for them and anyone else who needs some guidance to benefit from alone time.
Get acquainted with your consciousness
When you surround yourself with the company of others, your everyday thinking strays to more collective thoughts. While this may be good for becoming a more forgiving person, an individualistic mindset is vital for powerful self-reflection and valuable time alone.
Shelley Duval and Robert A. Wicklund, the authors of A Theory of Objective Self…
