Alone..

A truly strong person is an individual who can be alone without feeling a single tinge of loneliness. They are perfectly comfortable to be with themselves. For that, I admire you, a strong-hearted person. 

So what is the difference between alone and lonely?

Below is what I found out and understood.

When you are lonely, you are looking for someone or something to fill your time, to fill the void in your schedule and to fill a void in your heart. You are longing for something that does not exist anymore, or maybe never existed in some cases. You hope for company and feel depressed when you are by yourself. Loneliness is a negative state of mind where you are always longing for the other.

Alone is a positive state of mind, a very fulfilling place to be. It is a state where you are always and constantly delighted in yourself. It is blissful, happiness, content with nothing, and peaceful. You do not rely on anyone but yourself to feel alone, and you are happy being alone. You have found yourself, and you are living happily with yourself.

No one should start a relationship of any kind, whether it be a friend while they are lonely. It is an equation for failure.

Once you are alone and are perfectly happy with your alone, you will find an equal to you, not someone who adds or subtracts something from you. You will share so many things in common, because you overcame loneliness and found your bliss being alone. 

Lonely is one feeling that is worth every part of the pain to allow you to reach your alone. You will find yourself a person who is fully capable of everything.

-Wisdom of Osho-