Lesson learned. #reverb10
I’m a few days behind, and I’m picking and choosing which #reverb10 posts to write about (and apparently when). There aren’t rules, are there? Eh? Eh?
I loved @tea_austen’s prompt:
Lesson learned. What was the best thing you learned about yourself this past year? And how will you apply that lesson going forward?
2010 was a year of “alone.” It was the first full year I really spent 100 percent single, in a brand new city, with very few friends. If you ask anyone who knows me, they know I haven’t been single since I was 13. Literally.
I’ve never had to be alone. In Colorado, I was surrounded by familiar friends, family, boyfriends and exes. The first six months I was in San Francisco, I latched on to a guy so I didn’t have to be alone. Apparently, I was afraid.
This year, I learned that it’s okay to be alone. In fact, it’s kind of nice. I spent time with myself, getting to know myself — and my real self that didn’t revolve around making someone else happy. I learned about photography, I wrote (a lot), I explored the city, and I created a new version of myself — the version that is completely content being alone. I’m content being alone with myself, happy with myself, proud of myself.
And that is a wonderful feeling.
