or attending an event without a friend’s company fills us with dread. What if other people think we’re unpopular? Who is there to fill the silence?In the first chapter of her bookwrites: “Time alone was just a drab waiting room to tolerate until real life resumed; it held so little value to me. Solitude was a chore, something I was lumbered with doing enough of already.
However, as she explains later: “Learning to value alone time is, without a doubt, the most radical and important lesson I’ve learnt in my life to date.” For one, there’s no wrestling with five different calendars or waiting for someone else’s schedule to align with yours to go and see thatThe more comfortable you get with time just to yourself, the more you realise that there’s really no need to declare a Saturday night a washout just because you can’t find anyone to go to dinner with you. You’re the only company you truly need.