Aloneness (Solitude)

I have been absent for a bit because I decided to retire. I’ve shut up shop after 27 years. And I’ve been spending time with myself, taking stock of what I have done, coming to terms with who I am now and looking at where I can and want to go from here.

Everyone needs times alone to learn to live with and love themselves and their own company. You can’t love what you don’t know. Living alone with yourself, you come to know and understand who you are and how you tick; you gain peace, serenity and dignity because, by communing with yourself, you learn to identify and resolve your differences, the inner conflicts that split you and alienate you against yourself. In this way you learn how to love others and to resolve your differences with them. You learn what you want in relationship and how you can get it by being clear in your intentions. You are less likely to mislead those you relate with.

So I have been getting clearer about what I now want to offer. I love my solitude; but I will still be around. I will still be blogging. I might even write another book. And I will still be happy to see you here.