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512-5-1-2-5-8-0-3-0. Today, we're going to be talking about how to fall in love with being

alone. Because let's be real. Being alone can be hard

sometimes. If you're out there and you're like, well, being alone isn't that hard for me.

I don't mean being alone and watching Netflix or scrolling on your phone or any of that.

I mean being alone, 100% alone with no external stimulation.

Is that kind of tough for you? Because for most people that I talk to, it's almost unbearable.

And the reason why is a couple of reasons why, number one, we're tribal beings. We like to be

around other people. It's built

into us. And we like socializing for people who are introverts like me, we like socializing

less than the average person, but we still like it at some points in time. And we also like

to be entertained. But the statistics prove that the older that you get, the more time you will spend alone.

And so if that's the case, we might as well learn from it.

We might as well gain from and get something from being alone.

But here's the truth of the matter.

Being alone doesn't mean that you have to be lonely. And the key here is how you

actually look at it and how you actually frame it. If you can shift your mindset, solitude will become

an opportunity rather than some form of a burden that you need to avoid. And this isn't like

surface level self-care tips or anything

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