Learning to live with yourself As we float and swim across life, we often face heartbreaks, failures, rejections from and regrets about people and circumstances . And to avoid the pain caused by these discomforts, we look for escapes in people and things in the form of friendships, relationships and addictions. Surely, they provide us momentary escape but for how long until we are again faced with that unnerving pain buried in our chests. William Shakespeare said- "to thine own self be true" In the calm or chaos surrounding us, when we quieten the clamour within, we are faced with only a singular distilled truth - You are only there for yourself, only YOU. You need to learn to live with yourself first before anyone else does. You need to love yourself first before any other does. You need to choose yourself first before anyone else does. You need to drink the poison of that pain to taste the nectar that awaits you in life. You need to pull yourself from the dark crevices of the soul to see that tiny flicker of light to ignite it . Because if you don't do it for yourself no one else would ...YOU ARE ESSENTIALLY ALONE AND WILL ALWAYS WILL BE IN THIS HOME CALLED THE BODY. SO LEARN TO LIVE IN IT ALONE FIRST. Riya Verma