Take time to be alone
Being alone is not being sad or lonely so there is no harm if you take time to be by yourself and think about things.
Take time to be alone because that is how you find peace and time for yourself.
I came across this video online where a guy approached a lady all alone. The guy then asked the lady if she could hold the flowers he was holding, to which the lady readily did, so that the guy can tie his shoelaces. When he was done, he said to the lady to have a nice day and left leaving the flowers behind.
I thought was cute and heartwarming.
A couple of days later, I saw clip which featured that video. In it the lady in the video said that she saw a lot of posts and comments online about that video of hers and most assumed that she was lonely and sad old lady.
To her that was not right for she was neither sad nor lonely. She felt that the video was not about her but rather it was for the content creator who posted the video online without her consent even.
She had become another victim of content creators.
This reminded me of a post by @Ruffa about being alone but not lonely.
Let us normalize being alone.
Another post online is about a guy who was sitting by himself and the author of the post captioned it as "the lonely guy" and the author wanted to keep the guy company but he/she was shy. The guy doesn't seem lonely. He looks like someone who was enjoying his meal while busy on his phone.
When did "me time" become not normal?
For the past couple of days, I was not that in a great mental and emotional state. I haven't been that active in blogging platforms because I was just not feeling it. Yes, I do go about some of my routines and still go on with life but I still need my own time to think and process why I feel what I feel and that's normal.
We still spend some time together with my partner in the same room but I still like to go to the other room to be alone and, again, that's normal.
A lot of content creators these days are just for that - content. They don't even have the decency to ask permission for those people in their videos if they are willing to be videoed or photographed. If you want to do good deeds, like really help people, then do it willingly and wholeheartedly without having to record it and showing it to the world. I mean that is not that bad but to make it more about yourself, that's what makes it bad.
I'm one of those that find it hard to concentrate when disturbed while working on a plan that needs deep reasoning. I ponder more on findings whenever I'm a lone.
The issue of a Camera behind a giving hand is a major issue in our world today and it's not looking to end soon