Be friends with loneliness

"Be friends with loneliness." A girlfriend told me this last night during our sharing session. It was funny because for the last few weeks I've been trying hard to avoid loneliness. I always thought I could handle being alone, but these past weeks had shown me that I wasn't as comfortable as I thought I was.

It's a learning process, for me, for now. One day I would wake up and find that loneliness is a friend that I could count on ...