The Art of Being ALONE: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage Renuka Gavrani

The author spends most of her life wishing for people to stay or have fun with her while ignoring her soul waiting for her to pay attention to herself. She knows it's tough to be lonely, but she promises that it's fun to be alone and even more amazing when you use your alone time to build your dream life, achieve your goals, and fall in love with yourself.

The fear of loneliness was injected into our minds since we were kids. We have learned that the kid who eats, sits, and has no friends is pathetic. In every book or movie, the kid who eats alone and has no friends is always featured as a weak character who needs to be saved. The author doesn't want to be seen as a 'weirdo' hence, our dread of being alone. We don't want people to think of us as someone who needs to be saved or mocked. We don't want people to think that no one chose us. So what do we do? We start becoming like an ideal version of whom everyone loves. And in the race of achieving people's acceptance and love, you end up losing yourself.