{"id":14182,"date":"2025-08-14T09:37:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/?p=14182"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T06:21:35","slug":"if-you-are-lonely-when-youre-alone-you-are-in-bad-company-jean-paul-sartre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/if-you-are-lonely-when-youre-alone-you-are-in-bad-company-jean-paul-sartre\/","title":{"rendered":"“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.”
\u2013 Jean-Paul Sartre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let me put you on to something I never thought I\u2019d recommend: doing stuff alone. No, seriously. As someone who used to have terrible social anxiety, I get it\u2014it sounds terrifying. But now? I\u2019m obsessed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Coffee shops, museums, parks, random bookstores\u2014I go by myself, and I love it. I\u2019ve started treating solo time like a date with myself. I bring a book. I people-watch. There’s literally no pressure, no one waiting on me, no weird group decision-making.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I used to think being alone meant being lonely. Now I realize they\u2019re not the same thing at all. Independence is a flex. I broke out of this weird guilt spiral where I thought I always needed to be with people to feel validated. Honestly I’d definitely say I\u2019m great company.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why not romanticize your solo time? You deserve to feel comfortable in your own presence.<\/span><\/p>\n



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Let me put you on to something I never thought I\u2019d recommend: doing stuff alone. No, seriously. As someone who used to have terrible social anxiety, I get it\u2014it sounds terrifying. But now? I\u2019m obsessed.   Coffee shops, museums, parks, random bookstores\u2014I go by myself, and I love it. I\u2019ve started treating solo time like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rave"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14422,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions\/14422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev2025-2-2.movesflash.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}