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How I Deal With Loneliness; How My Loneliness Is Working in My Favor
I never had a best friend neither in school nor in college but I always wanted one. A kind of best friend we see in web series and movies. Perhaps, that is the reason that even after having a bunch of friends around me, I used to feel incomplete.
Though if I look back in time and see the world from a fresh perspective (or mature perspective), I can see a little girl wishing to have the same teddy bear she saw in some random movie.
In case you didn’t understand, I meant that after watching this great web series and movies on friendship and romance, we are just manipulated into believing that ‘there is something called forever’
However, when your own friends or partner leave you alone, you feel betrayed, lonely and incomplete. You and I have nourished a belief that people have to be available for us 24/7. But real life doesn’t work that way. People aren’t ambulances who can be available to you whenever you want. They have got their own shit to deal with. They have got a career to work for. A family to nurture. A goal to achieve. And a few breaths to inhale in silence.
And this was one of the harsh truths that I had to accept when my college life came to end and I had to say Goodbye to my friends cum family. They were home to me and with them, there was…