How To Avoid Loneliness As A Single Person

How can a single person avoid loneliness?

Single people have great opportunities, both to be very sociable and have people in their life that they really care about, and to have solitude. When people think about single people, they so often think, "oh, poor things - they're lonely." What they think about less often is, "oh, they have time and space to be creative, to have solitude, to have time to themselves." One of my favorite surveys that I read in a magazine was on Mother's Day, where people asked mothers, "What would you most like to have on this day?" They don't say breakfast in bed, they don't say a new dress, they say "Time to myself". The place of solitude is greatly undervalued, and single people often have that. Single people can also tend to their friends and their relatives and the people who are important to them without having to run all of their plans through someone else.