Relationships can be rewarding. You have someone you can talk to, hang out with, spend time with, and even cuddle, especially when the weather is so cold. That’s beautiful, but what happens when you don’t have anybody, when all you have is yourself?
People make it look like being single is such a terrible thing. No, it’s not. If you have someone to be in a relationship with, that’s great. But if you don’t, you can enjoy being single. Here’s how to do that.
1. Being Single Helps You Focus on Yourself
A relationship involves two people coming together and deciding to be together. That means it’s no longer about you, unless you are a selfish person who doesn’t care about your partner.
When you’re in a relationship, you have to become selfless. It’s no longer about you and what you want. You have to consult your partner and seek their opinion on everything, especially if what you want to do affects them directly or indirectly.
It’s like you have to seek permission for everything. You don’t own yourself anymore. Someone else owns you, and you own that person, too. You can’t wake up one morning and say, “Hey, this’s what I want to do.” If you did that, your partner could take offense, and that could lead to trouble in paradise.
But that’s not the case if you’re single. You’re not answerable to anybody. You can do whatever you want.
If you’re someone who knows what they’re doing, it means you can make better decisions, decisions that’ll enhance your life and take you from your current situation to one that’s a lot better than where you’re right now.
You get to focus on yourself and do things that make you happy. Sometimes, when you’re in a relationship, you have to make certain compromises. You have to put your own happiness aside just to make your partner happy, especially if you truly love them.
2. Being Single Is Less Stressful
Loving someone can be hard, and being in a relationship is even harder. Every day, it’s one trouble or another. You and your partner are constantly going back and forth over issues, and sometimes those are trivial issues, issues that ordinarily shouldn’t be any problem. But because you guys’re so invested in each other, you guys’re so madly in love with each other, little things begin to count.
Little things start to get to both of you, and before you know it, you’re always stressed, emotionally down, thinking about this or that, and it begins to affect you. It begins to affect other areas of your life.
Some relationships are toxic. Sometimes, you begin to ask yourself, Why am I with this person? What am I doing with this person?
If you’re all by yourself, single and alone, that wouldn’t be happening, okay. Nobody would be in your life to stress you out. Whatever you’re doing, you’re doing it for you. Nobody has the right to tell you what to do or to question what you’re doing.
3. Being Single Helps You Excel in Your Career or Business
You can excel in your career when single because you don’t have anyone stressing you out in a relationship, no one putting their baggage on you. You have the time and the opportunity to focus on whatever it is you’re doing. You get to focus on your career or business.
By doing that, you have clarity of mind. You have all the time in the world to go for what you want. When you focus on something so much and put in all your efforts, giving it your all, you’re most likely to get positive results.
4. Being Single Allows You to Build Meaningful Friendships
Have you noticed that when you’re single, you have more time on your hands to make more friends and grow closer to them? When you’re in a relationship, you subconsciously make your partner the center of your world. That person’s the only one you think about all day.
But when you’re single, it’s a great time to bond more with your friends, meet people, and just have fun. Good friends can enhance your life. They can make you a better person. And when you have several good people in your life, it means you have several opportunities to become a better person.
5. Being Single Helps You Save More Money
When you are in a relationship, you are always spending money, planning dates, buying gifts, and trying to make your partner happy. But when you are single, your plans are fewer, and you won’t be spending money all the time. You still spend money on yourself, but it’s controlled. In the long run, you’ll find that you have more money for yourself.
6. Being Single Gives You the Opportunity to Be With the Person of Your Dreams
When you are single, you can do whatever you want. You don’t have to settle. You can wait for the person you really want. The moment you find that person who drives you crazy, there’s nothing holding you back. You just go for your dreams and goals.
At the end of the day, no man’s an island. Everybody wants to be with somebody, especially somebody who truly loves and cares about them. If you haven’t found that person yet, don’t beat yourself up. Be single and enjoy it until that person comes along.