2 . Solitude Connects You With Yourself
3 . Solitude Makes You Authentic
In conversations with others we touch on the surface of many different topics without allowing ourselves to be completely absorbed by any single one of them . Solitude provides a strong center , an inner core , that makes your attention feel centered rather than dragged around by different social or environmental stimulations .
2 . Solitude Connects You With Yourself
Stimulation in our technological age is everywhere , and it ’ s all too easy to spend a few hours drifting from page to page on Reddit or YouTube , playing games on your phone or watching endless amount of television . The truth is : technology disconnect you from yurself . However , technology is not to blame , but rather our poor use of it . It captures our short attention spans and distracts us from true deep effort and work within ourselves . Social media also gives us a superficial sense of socializing , which is the true deep and multi-dimensional friendship equivalent to masturbation , compared with sex .
3 . Solitude Makes You Authentic
It ’ s surprising and shocking when you become aware of all the ways in which other people influence the person you are . I have asked many people why they chose the jobs they did , or the places they live in and many told me they did so because of their friends or family . It ’ s easy to get a job in a place where your friends work or go live where your family members live , but sometimes those decisions aren ’ t authentic to who you ’ re meant to be . The easily available options in our lives are not necessarily the truest to ourselves . We often get so consumed by listening to and watching others , that we forget to listen to ourselves .
How many people live in the city they were born in , work in the first field they decided to study , and have the same friends that they had in high school ? I ’ m certain that these decisions we made because they were easy , or obvious at some point in life . Solitude helps you to listen to yourself , and your own needs .