{"id":4666,"date":"2019-11-29T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=4666"},"modified":"2019-11-27T21:00:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T02:00:22","slug":"maddy-loneliness-why-its-ok-to-be-alone-but-why-it-sometimes-sucks-but-why-thats-also-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2019\/11\/29\/maddy-loneliness-why-its-ok-to-be-alone-but-why-it-sometimes-sucks-but-why-thats-also-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Maddy: Loneliness – Why It\u2019s Ok To Be Alone But Why It Sometimes Sucks But Why That\u2019s Also Ok"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey commies! It\u2019s that time of year; cuffing season is upon us, you can\u2019t inspire yourself to leave your single, your friends all left for break but you have one freaking class the day before so you can\u2019t leave til Wednesday morning…just me???<\/span><\/p>\n

The point is, it is loneliness szn, but here are some pros and cons to being alone (and pros for the cons.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Eating Alone Is GOOD<\/span><\/h2>\n

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While mealtime is social time for many people, eating alone can be great for a few reasons. For one thing, it can be a time of mindfulness and solemn reflection as you play out fantasy scenarios in your head and practice dealing with your worst anxieties, so you\u2019ll be ready for these situations when they absolutely never happen. Also, you\u2019re on your own eating schedule, so you don\u2019t have to wait til the conversation ends to get up and get your next course. Are these tips helping? NEXT!<\/span><\/p>\n

Living in a single is A BLESSING<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

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If you\u2019re an introvert like me, you need to get home after a long day and just decompress. Interacting with people takes a lot of energy, and you deserve to completely chill, zone in on your homework, nap, or do whatever. It can be hard to motivate yourself to leave, which is something you absolutely must do, but if you live in the moment and enjoy your alone time, you\u2019ll find that when you do reenter civilization, you\u2019ll do it with a clear head.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Take yourself to the movies!!!!!\u00a0<\/span>
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Take — and I cannot stress this enough — yourself to the movies.<\/p>\n

You might get lonely<\/h2>\n

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I threw a con in there, were you ready for it?!! Yes, you might get lonely – duh. But in the immortal words of Veronica Sawyer from Heathers The Musical<\/em>, if you were happy all the time, you\u2019d be a game show host. If you can learn to be alone with yourself now while it\u2019s a choice, you\u2019ll be able to handle it when you graduate and move to a new city, or when you enter any new situation. Most importantly, if you learn to like being alone, you\u2019ll appreciate being with people even more.<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess all I\u2019m trying to say is…if you ever feel like you\u2019re always alone, don\u2019t worry, you\u2019re not alone. Good luck on your journey to going back inside and locking the door.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA wise man can always be found alone.\u201d – Bruce Lee (???) \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey commies! It\u2019s that time of year; cuffing season is upon us, you can\u2019t inspire yourself to leave your single, your friends all left for break but you have one freaking class the day before so you can\u2019t leave til Wednesday morning…just me??? The point is, it is loneliness szn, but here are some pros … Continue reading Maddy: Loneliness – Why It\u2019s Ok To Be Alone But Why It Sometimes Sucks But Why That\u2019s Also Ok<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44503],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4666\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}