DECIDING TO BE LONELY

Pauline NGONGANG
2 min readAug 31, 2022

How long do we think we should be in that state of isolation? Many will say, as long as I have my peace.

Definition: Abstaining from activities or individuals who challenge your school of thought. Your school of thought are your ideas, behavioral patterns, and communication skills. An encountered disagreement is a relevant point to stay away from, and an agreed conversation is an acceptable apology for a wrongful act. Meaning when someone explains to you about your wrong behavior you get so angry and don’t intend to communicate with the person and when next you discuss that same topic with someone else, and you both agree, you are indirectly accepting the apology for the person who told you the truth before and feels okay to start communicating with the person.

The quest for freedom has made many individuals engage into activities that made them hopeless and unproductive. Most of the freedom is from pain, stress, financial stability, social pressure, anxiety, fear, disappointments, and many others. It limits your scope of understanding and getting satisfied from a little gesture of peace, and this peace which you so much desire is temporal and not permanent.

Causes of deciding to be lonely?

-Constant Rejections

- Poor self-awareness

-Social anxiety

-Values confusion

-Lack of assertiveness

Implications

1. Stress

2. Anxiety

3. Lack of sleep

4. Addictions

5. Depression

6. Mental health

7. Constant suicidal thoughts

How to deal with them

1. Meditation

2. Act, think and speak of positivity

3. Exercise

4. Be confident

5. Define your values

6. Recognized and acknowledge love

7. Create hobbies

8. Build a community that elevates your mood.

9. Create leisure time.

10. Build an identity/brand for yourself.

Remember, you are not alone we are victims of fear, anxiety, and rejection yet that doesn’t define anybody, you are a victim because you act and think as one. Individuals have to bridge the gap between being a victim and a hero. Choose to be any of them, it’s your choice. Sometimes love given needs to be returned, and when it’s not returned it becomes a question of existence. There’s no successful man without a story, and there’s no successful man without the fear of rejection.

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Pauline NGONGANG
Pauline NGONGANG

Written by Pauline NGONGANG

Pauline NGONGANG talks about mindset-shift, by providing guidance on how to build/cultivate minds to attain their utmost potentials.

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