Go ahead and say it. You're too bored to spend time by yourself. You have too much to do to have some time to relax. You're too afraid to be alone.

In a digital world where no one is ever without a smartphone, we are always connected to someone, somewhere, and at any time. Through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and text messages, we always have someone to chat with, someone to lean on, someone to tell everything to, someone for just about everything we ever might need.

Because of this, we sometimes take ourselves for granted. Sometimes it's all we can do to just struggle from not looking at our phones for an hour or two. We never want to be alone by ourselves or just do things for ourselves. Society doesn’t take the idea of alone time lightly. We are always calling or texting someone to hang out with us. We are always commenting and liking. We are really always with someone for the majority of the time, even if we're not really.

While it is important that we do have people in our lives because it's true that we all need other people and we really wouldn’t be able to exist without them, we also need ourselves. We need the stability and reasoning from our thought-provoking heads and the direction of our own little hearts.

All in all, we make decisions for ourselves and live our lives the way we want to live them. But, it doesn't always seem that way. It isn't always so easy; isn't always so cut and dry. We always are influenced by something, somewhere. This is because we are simply never just alone.

We feel too guilty to tell our friends no, that we don't really feel like going out. We are easily persuaded, typically peer pressured into doing what we don't really feel like doing.

And what most people don't understand is that, in this digital world, it's okay to be alone sometimes. It's okay to want to spend time with yourself. It's okay to take some me-time every one in awhile.

In order to learn more about ourselves, we need to spend times by ourselves to figure out what really makes us happy and what really makes us tick.

Just because you spend some time by yourself every once in a blue moon doesn't mean you're a "homebody," a "hermit," or "antisocial." We all crave some interaction at some point or another, but is it really so important to live for other people all the time when we can be living for ourselves in every waking moment we have? Don't take the time for granted.

We need to do what's best for us. If what's best for us is watching Netflix alone with a bowl of cereal on a Saturday night, then so be it. We are only one person, and we simply cannot make everyone in this tempting world so happy all the time.

So the next time you feel like saying "no" and maybe just staying in for the night, embrace yourself and rely on yourself, just rely on what makes you happy.

So go ahead and say it. It's okay to want to be alone sometimes.