20 Surprising Facts & Benefits Of Living Alone

In today's age everyone are busy with their own life and hardly they involve in you. In such case, living alone plays a crucial role in an individual life, as it can teach you various things and allows you to live independently rather depending on others every time. 

You might have heard most people say that being alone is the best. However IMO and reality, being alone may not be favorable to every person, because not everyone knows how to deal with loneliness. Living alone also has both pros and cons as that of living in a group. Whether one can be benefited from being alone or not, it mainly depends on the person. 

What To Do When You Are Alone?

Most people often worry about living alone or try to avoid loneliness. In such cases, one can actually take advantage of their interest and activities! However, there are various benefits of living alone, in which you can really take advantage by following the tips that are mentioned below.

20 Benefits Of Living Alone : The Power Of Being Single

Whenever you are connected to the group, you become highly dependent on their decisions and opinion. In that case, you cannot think on yourself, or make clear decisions, and you cannot know the true nature of life and yourself, hence it can be hard to find the personal growth.

The two most important aspects that anyone can experience from being alone is freedom and personal growth. 

Freedom:

1. First thing is you are independent, and you are not in control of others, thereby you have more freedom for yourself.

2. You can be comfortable in your ways. No need to hesitate in being yourself while you live in a group.

3. You get a chance to do anything at anytime personally, and  nobody will interfere with you. 

4. You can go out anywhere at anytime and no need to answer for anyone. 

5. You can work, focus on your goals and live freely without any disturbance. As nobody will interfere in your personal life and work.

6. You can be peaceful and achieve a calm mind by staying away from social drama, arguments, rumors and emotional disturbances.

7. You don't need to ask for help of everything from others, you can do it yourself the way you want. In the same way, others also don't interfere with you in asking everything, because you are away from them.

8. You can save your time and money as compared to being with friends or partner over various other activities, and you can utilize them efficiently in your personal life.

9. You no need to worry about random calls, notifications and events from your group while you are in sleep or during the work. You can live freely and work efficiently without any disturbance.

10. You no need to depend on their plans and decision every time. You can plan and decide anything what best suits for you.

11. Being single will save you thousand times more stress than being in the wrong relationship. Because, you no need to worry what others say about you and no need to prove your point with anyone. 

12. According to the study, most people stay happier with being alone than living with the partner. This is because they are divorced or have not found their true love or to enjoy their own freedom.

Personal Growth:

1. Firstly, being alone itself can act like a skill. Because it can allow you to be the best version of yourself and also improves your personal growth.

2. Living alone can get you a creative ideas and thoughts, and also chance to explore life, people and yourself, which also enhances your researching skills. While these are less likely to happen when you are in the group, which is a crucial part for seeking changes in one's personal life.

3. You can focus better on your goals, work, career and decisions without any interference. 

4. Living alone can teach you how to be independent, self responsible, make self decisions and tasks by yourself without worrying about others opinion, which also enhances your confidence and personal experience.

5. Being single improves your ability to think clearly, decision making, reasoning, observation and problem solving skills. All these can enhance your mental strength and make you powerful.

6. Living alone can teach how to travel alone, be responsible & be independent. Traveling alone can teach how to live alone, be independent & responsible. Taking responsibilities teaches you how to be independent, live alone & travel alone.

7. You get a chance to learn new skills like cooking, travelling and other activities on your own.

8. Living alone can actually give you the true knowledge and experience about the life and yourself.

Cons:

1. Loneliness 

One of the most common problem arises while living alone is loneliness. You feel loneliness when you get bored and you may also prone to think more negative thoughts at that time.

2. No Emotional Support

When you are alone, nobody will understand your feelings or nobody is there to entertain or support you emotionally.

3. Nobody To Help

Another major problem with being alone is nobody is there to help you or give you the company with your activities, and you have to take care of all by yourself.

Conclusion:

So these are some of the tips you can follow and enjoy the life from living alone. Hope I gave you some of the best points about being alone along with pros and cons. Both living alone and living in a group has a pros and cons. So, being alone is neither good or bad. However, one can take advantage from living alone.