Solitude is essential for cultivation of self.

To know your own energy, your thoughts, your beliefs, your feelings, your alignment.

If you’re always surrounding yourself with people, things, distractions, noise, everything in the field can become neutralized or flat. You can lose yourself more. What is mine, what is theirs. What is influencing me. There can be less clarity.

Separation creates charge. The differential creates polarity.

I find it best to be a whole energy, not a merged energy. I want to carry my own energy, not search for it in something or someone else.

I notice if I am lacking in solitude I slip into frustration and resentment towards other people. Not at the fault of those other people, but at my own slip away from self. I find myself happiest when I allow myself enough solitude to be a whole individual energy, not a continuously merged one.

Connection can then become an intentional choice. Not a dependency or a distraction.