Sometimes I just need to be alone.

Not because I like being alone, I hate it, but because this world can become too much to bear. You see this place is filled with harsh realities, broken promises and washed up scum. Sins of every kind you can imagine and negativity that'll eat your soul. This place can drag you down. The negativity can break you. This home on earth that we live on can and will try everything in its power to bring you down. Therefore, sometimes I just need to be alone.

Not because I don't fear the loneliness. Not because I don't fear what other people will say when I step out and do things on my own. I do. But embracing life and being confident in myself can only lift my spirits. Allowing myself to be alone so that I can breathe. So that I can clear my mind of the utter darkness that our world can drag you into. It's almost as if I need reality to set in on my own, without any opinions, without any talking, without any.. Anything.

You see the matter of the fact is that alone time is good for the soul. A few weeks ago, I was lying alone in my hammock on the beach, as the wind brushed past me with freshest air and scent of ocean breeze, entrenched in deep thought about life and where it was taking me. Thoughts that were engulfing my brain; thoughts that were suffocating me and quite frankly getting the best of me. Until suddenly, as I was staring off into the distance of the Atlantic, a random lady approached me.

"That's a good life," she said, and before I could say anything in response, she was gone.

That simplistic statement changed my entire day. This random woman snapped me out of my thoughts and brought me back to reality. Back to where I was supposed to be. Back to the whole reason I had gone to the beach to spend time alone in the first place.

Life wasn't that bad. My thoughts had been consuming me, but for what? When I'm the sole person in control of my own happiness and being, why was I bringing myself down? And then I stopped because she was right. It was a good life. That day that I had taken upon myself to spend alone had led me to a stranger whose words gave me life. So yes, sometimes I need to be alone. Not because I want to, because there're things in this world that are good. Things that do bring the light into your life.

So take some time to yourself. Breathe. Talk to a stranger. Explore. Just be. Because right when you think you've lost your mind, it'll come back. Because you, yes you, sometimes need to be alone.