How I Am Enjoying Solitude In an Environment that Suffocates Me; How You Can Too

Solitude was never my first choice.

I always imagined living in a giant family that stays together and everyone loves each other. Well, that didn’t turn out well. More on that some other day. And just when I found perfect friends in my college, my college came to end and we all went to different cities for work, or whatever.

In simple words, I was left alone. And when I say alone, I mean I don’t have any friends in my hometown. I don’t have a problem with small cities rather I love them because people have a sense of community here. Everyone knows each other and people close their shops at around 8 PM to get back home and spend a good time with their families. Quite good, right?

Sure it is. But darling, everything comes with an ugly side. My city is so small that it doesn’t have anything that I enjoy. We don’t have any park (God, I love nature but duh..), no library (I am a book lover), no bookstore, and absolutely no cafes or art galleries. Welcome to my life, it sucks too.

And as much as I hate to live here (still I have to for some reasons), I cannot spend my life complaining about it. I know I want to live in a better city where I can go to a café and read a book and pretend like a mysterious girl. I want to live in a city that…