Personal development & self-improvement lessons

How I learned to be happy alone and you can too.

The way you approach life will decide your outcome!

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Firstly, you must understand that

“Being alone isn’t the same as being lonely”.

The difference between living alone and loneliness

This is the first thing I believe that we need to clarify before discovering the way how to be happy alone. Actually, being “alone” and “lonely” is totally different.

It is not the same as many people think they are. Because the way to approach and the meaning behind these words are not similar.

To be specific, in a study of Psychology Today, the meaning of these words have been defined as

Being lonely is a psychological state characterised by a distressing experience occurring when one’s social relationships are (self-)perceived to be less in quantity and quality than desired.

While

Being alone is the physical state of not being with another individual, might it be human or animal.