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How Traveling Alone Can Get You Out Of The Hole Of Sadness
Isn’t being alone sad already, and now you want me to go somewhere by myself? This does not make sense.
I already know the questions. If I am sad, why would I go somewhere completely alone and have no one? This inevitable will make me realize that I am alone, and now I am sad because I had no one to come on this trip with.
Yes, this is true. You are alone, and when you are alone, you feel sad. Yet how about instead of thinking this, you take it in another direction. Being alone gives you time to reconnect with yourself.
Most of us are so busy living our lives with our families, children, friends, surviving a pandemic of being alone. Now you are telling me to be even more alone? Go to a foreign place alone?
Yes, yes, I am. Why? When I was married and in relationships, I used to cry at night or on my way home from work. Feeling that there was a big hole in my heart of sadness, loneliness, I felt alone.
I had a husband at the time, yet I felt utterly alone. Do you know how that feels? To feel completely alone and…
