17/08/2026
Loneliness can be scary sometimes.
Not because there’s no one around.
But because in silence, there’s nowhere left to hide from yourself.
No conversations to drown out your thoughts.
No noise to distract you.
No people to hide behind.
It’s just you.
And whatever is going on inside your mind.
Maybe that’s why we try to fill every empty moment — with our phones, work, music, people, entertainment.
Because silence sometimes forces us to hear the things we’ve been avoiding for a long time.
But maybe loneliness isn’t the enemy.
Maybe it’s the place where you finally meet the one person you can never escape from.
Yourself.
— MEATLANDER