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Being Alone 06/27/2010
 

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How to Enjoy being Alone?
By: FLIRTINI

 I've been living all alone for about two weeks now and it isn't a fun experience. Being in the same routine and doing the same things with nobody but yourself, I feel isolated and even alienated at times. I sometimes  would prefer being in bed and just daydream rather than getting up and facing the real world because there is this usual scenario of eating breakfast, lunch or dinner alone and the constant trying to look at the cellphone drama, because perhaps there might be somebody who really cares or remembers your existence.  After a moment of brainstorming in my mind and doing such extensive research of the subject of being alone, I came up a list of the things to do in order to combat these unbearable loneliness of living all by yourself. Here are the following: 


 1. Clean your room - I guess it is time to make your room a place conducive or at least habitable for human life. Through cleaning your room, it somehow gives you a sense of control to your life and as well as a sense of accomplishment. With all these things to clean from scrubbing the floor to wiping dusty cupboards, you will be very preoccupied to the point of not minding the thought of being alone. Lastly, cleaning your room is a one good step of living a happy life. 

 2. Read a book - Reading a book brings you endless possibilities. It brings you to places that you are not familiar with and tells you many things that you haven't heard of. There are many books to choose from, whether you want to read some sci - fi books such as "Lord of the Rings" or "Harry Potter" to some great classics such as "Count of Monte Cristo" or "Pride and Prejudice". 

3. Exercise - Always wanted to have a body like those you see in the cover of the magazines? And having that kind of sexy body seems to be of a distant dream? I say, this is the right time to make such dream a realization. Go to the nearest gym or any recreational centers where you could exercise. A 2 hour exercise in a day would remove 2 hours of staring in front of the wall waiting for nothing and instead, it will burn those calories and give you a sense of fulfillment. And we never know, you might find a hot catch in the gym ;) 


 4. Write - Sometimes it is funny and quite inspiring when Walter Wellesley Smith once quoted something about writing, he said, "There is nothing wrong to writing. All you do is sit down at a type writer and open a vein". Partially, I agree with what he said and partially, I do not. Writing shouldn't be seen as grotesque and difficult. However, I don't say that writing is 0% difficult, it is just that writing should be seen and taken as a passion, and as they all say, when passion is present, everything just move swiftly like air. Writing is somehow a dialogue with yourself, it is a way of communicating with your inner self. It helps you release all emotions within in you and that includes the sadness and loneliness that haunts you especially in the night. It is an output to make your life slate clean and it gives you such lighter feeling after. You can write about just anything whether about school, politics or just simply your everyday escapades.  


 5. Cook - Most people are fond of eating and not cooking. As for myself, I was never interested in the cooking part but when it comes to the eating part, I am willing to take such noble responsibility of finishing everything that is laid on the table. Since, I've been living all alone and nobody is there to cook for me, and because I am human, I need to survive by learning how to cook. I don't mean that you have to enroll in a culinary school (but I am not telling you that you shouldn't). All you have to do is follow whatever is instructed in the recipe page of a cook book or a recipe/cooking website. Just be passionate about religiously following such instructions and as well as inject some experimentation like substituting one ingredient with a local ingredient or by adding some ingredients. Whatever might be the result of such crazy experimentation, tasting it would be far from crazy (based on experience). It was a fun thing to learn about, which is cooking! 


 6. Participating in Online Social Networks - It is the new age of social networking from tweeting about your latest happenings in Tweeter to connecting and sharing your life with close friends and relatives in Facebook. It gives you somehow a virtual way of feeling not alone because through these networking sites, you are able to connect with friends and family through chatting, sharing photos, updating status, playing games and many things to mention. It is a fun way spending your time tweeting of being alone rather than cursing the heavens of having such fate at least in social networking sites, somebody would care and comment about it.  


 7. Engage in forums and chatrooms - It is the new hype of communicating to other human beings. Long lost the days of waiting for some time to send and receive snail mails (No wonder, it is called SNAIL mail). Today, everything is an instant and everyone is always on the go that is why, many instant ways have been popping out like instant chat messengers, emails, and other never thought of inventions. Chatting in chatrooms would widen your virtual friend horizon, and it helps you gain many friends from different places in the world. You could talk to them with various topics in mind but be sure you choose descent chatrooms. And also, engaging oneself in forums, where you could post different topics to talk about and wait for people to comment about it and voila, an endless thread of thoughts and ideas. 


 8. Travel - Let not financial limitations hinder you from travelling. It is a fun way of learning at the same time meeting new people from different walks of life. It all needs an extensive planning of every cent that you have in your pocket. If your money would just allow you to do travel locally then never let that opportunity pass. If you have the means of traveling in different countries, then it would be much better. Don't let anything such as financial, age, or even being alone, be an obstacle to such wonderful experience that travelling has to offer.  


 9. Be of a Help - It is good to be helpful once in awhile. If you see an old woman who is having difficulty bringing her things, don't think twice and help the poor lady at once. There are so many things to do to become helpful to people. Perhaps, joining in an organization with a good cause and good intention for society such as ONE, an organization committed to fight poverty and preventable diseases or perhaps you could join a local organization that helps clean the environment. It is a way of spending your time creatively and significantly.  


 10. Be Happy and Optimistic about life - I don't need any explaining to do here. All the things I mentioned would be useless without this.
 


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pisces
02/14/2012 20:21

i love it..

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