"Sometimes you just need to disconnect and enjoy your own company."
Every single day, we are overcome with a million thoughts and tasks that occupy our lives. Things to be completed by a deadline—things to do by the end of the day, by Friday, by next week. Prepping and planning for all that’s to come. School work, early mornings and late nights, keeping up with work on top of it all. Caring for others, but caring for yourself. Getting things done. Our lives are filled with tasks to be done, things to keep track of, a social life to keep up with, goals to maintain. We live a life that is somehow supposed to find its way to a perfect balance of all of these things while still taking care of ourselves and remaining sane in the midst of it all.
It’s nearly impossible to feel on top of everything one hundred percent of the time. Every single person in this world has a life full of their own stressors, worries, and things that occupy their mind. Every single person has a life of their own to juggle and balance. Despite our constant effort, we become overwhelmed. In the midst of all the things to complete—whether it be school work, going to work, making dinner, going grocery shopping, volunteering, making time for your friends, making time to eat a meal, catching up with people you haven’t seen in a while, everyone has them. Everyone has a life, of chaos, of tasks, of things to keep them constantly moving and feeling like they’re on the go.
It becomes so easy to get so caught up in the mindset of go go go, and trying to accomplish everything that’s ahead all at once, that we forget t make time for ourselves. It becomes easy to oversee the value of “you” time. The value of having an hour to yourself to sit outside, to drink a cup of coffee, to take a nap, to go for a run.
There will always be work. There will always be things to complete, places to be, and people to attend to, while still seeking social happiness and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. There will always be something else calling for our time. However, just because you have all of this piling up and things that seem like they will never get done, doesn’t mean you can’t afford an hour. It doesn’t mean you can’t take a few minutes for you—in fact, it’s the time to yourself, away and disconnected from all of these constant tasks and time requirements, that keep a person sane.
Go for a walk, lay in your bed with the windows open, drink a cup of coffee outside, and take time to appreciate the silence-- the time away from everything else that takes your time up throughout the weeks, and soak up the goodness surrounding you every day. Alone time does not equate to loneliness. Valuing time to yourself does not make you antisocial, it keeps you sane.
There is something to be said for the times you get to stop and sit for a minute, and think about life beyond the constant worries and the stress. There is something more to appreciated in the time your stress free thoughts are the only thing going through your mind. We live in a world where we are constantly tuning in to something else, completing a million things at once, hardly ever having a second to just sit and think. We have school, and work, and trying to be active, while trying to volunteer, while trying to be a good friend, a good sibling, a good parent. Take a minute. Find value in your own time, find value in the time to soak it all in. Make your priority you.
