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Learn to be with yourself

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This article has 295,558 claps, and 1010 comments at last count. It was written by Zat Rana. He titled it ‘The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You’.

According to the article, the most important skill nobody teaches us is how to embrace the art of solitude and be with ourselves.

“Being alone and connecting inwardly is a skill nobody ever teaches us.”

— Zat Rana, The Most Important Skill Nobody Taught You

The message resonated with so many people for a reason. As it turns out, the ability to disengage from the noise around us and be with ourselves is something to be treasured.

And for me, the key highlight was:

…the less comfortable you are with solitude, the more likely it is that you won’t know yourself.

Lots of people are drifting through life without really knowing what it means to have a relationship with themselves.

We have no idea how easy it is for our ‘being’ to be drowned by the noisiness of the world. And as a result, a lot of people only know themselves through the eyes of others.

Lots of people are yet to realize how sublime it is that they exist as individuals. In this world…