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I Am Spending My 24th Birthday Alone By Choice: Will I Do It Again
Sometimes in life, you don’t have a choice and there are many reasons for that.
My situation is different. I decided to be away from all of my friends and family and have placed myself in a form of isolation as a result.
This is my first birthday alone and isolated from close that love and care about me.
Now being in this moment all of the theoretical peace that I had is stripping away and revealing the loneliness I feel and my diminished sense of purpose at this time.
I am however so fortunate for many things in my life during this birthday period.
I still receive calls and facetimes with those people who love me. Although the charade of professing that you are doing well to overt their worries about you in this time of celebration is in full swing. The attempts to set aside their concerns for your loneliness are to merely redirect the downtrodden energy that I have brought to the call. Because in those conversations it provides some semblance of the past celebrations where we would all be together.
Experiencing this time apart during an occasion such as a birthday also reminds me of the multitude of people experiencing the same and far worse periods of their lives daily. I am not saying this to diminish…
