Splash

When you’re alone for a long time, and you’ve decided that you like it that way, your life achieves an equilibrium. All your energies are equally distributed amongst all the different sections of your life. You get the right amount of sleep. You excel at work. You’re productive on your days off. You have time for your friends, you have a healthy social life, and you only drink once a week, sometimes once every 2 weeks.

Your mind is sharp and focused. Emotionally, you achieve a sort of equanimity. You become attuned to that inner conversation you have with yourself, the one that gets a bit drowned out when you’re in a relationship and half your mind is occupied by someone else.

You achieve solitude, which is different from loneliness. You become like the surface of a calm lake, still and serene, like a mirror reflecting the sky…

Then you fall in love again and it’s like someone hurling a huge boulder right smack into the centre of that lake.

‘Nuff said.

credits to ala p.