The Subtle Art of Being Alone

Katie Green
5 min readNov 27, 2019

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Alone time feels like a peaceful sanctuary until it isn’t chosen. It feels like a purgatory filled with the deafening sound of silence — a wasted Saturday afternoon when the sun is shining. It makes you feel desperate. Like you’re grasping for something that you don’t even want, because anything that isn’t you alone feels like it might fill the void. But, you have no options and it feels like you have nowhere to go. The things that…

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Katie Green

A stream of consciousness about too many moves, failed attempts at love and existential musings.