{"id":48,"date":"2023-06-15T01:53:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T01:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo2wpopal.b-cdn.net\/postero\/guide-inspiration-for-your-personal-picture-wall\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:08:31","slug":"solitude-and-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flower-studio.fr\/index.php\/2023\/06\/15\/solitude-and-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Solitude."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"48\" class=\"elementor elementor-48\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-744447f8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"744447f8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55b84547 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"55b84547\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<style>\n.solitude-text {\n    max-width: 750px;\n    margin: 60px auto;\n    padding: 0 20px;\n    font-family: \"Georgia\", serif;\n    color: #222;\n    line-height: 1.8;\n    font-size: 18px;\n}\n\n.solitude-text p {\n    margin-bottom: 22px;\n}\n\n.solitude-text .intro {\n    font-size: 20px;\n    line-height: 1.9;\n}\n\n.solitude-text .highlight {\n    font-style: italic;\n    color: #555;\n}\n\n.solitude-text .divider {\n    width: 60px;\n    height: 2px;\n    background: #ddd;\n    margin: 40px 0;\n}\n\n.solitude-text h2 {\n    font-size: 22px;\n    margin: 40px 0 20px;\n    font-weight: normal;\n    letter-spacing: 1px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"solitude-text\">\n\n<p class=\"intro\">\nI love solitude, the calm, the silence. I love taking my time, forgetting the passing hours.  \nI love feeling time flow over me, gently, without resistance.  \nI love simply taking the time to live.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nSitting under a tree, watching its branches dance in the wind. Drinking tea in the sunlight.  \nWatching incense smoke rise, soften, and disappear by the edge of a window.  \nObserving sunlight break through dense leaves, or slowly settle over a sleeping city at dawn.\n<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n<p>\nI love taking my time because I am tired of chasing it.  \nI no longer want time to slip away from me. I don\u2019t want to feel the constant need to slow down,  \nnor the guilt of seeking stillness in a world that moves too fast.\n<\/p>\n\n<h2>Being Alone<\/h2>\n\n<p>\nBeing alone is being free. It means doing what I want, without constraints or compromises.  \nIt means facing myself, listening to my thoughts, embracing my emotions.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"highlight\">\nWhen we give ourselves time, we begin to truly hear and understand ourselves\u2026  \nand perhaps find a deeper balance within.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nBeing alone also means recognizing how limiting our relationship with time can be.  \nIn a world obsessed with productivity, every hour feels like it must be optimized,  \npushing everyone into a kind of frenzy that, honestly, frightens me.\n<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n<h2>Time &#038; Art<\/h2>\n\n<p>\nYet art does not bloom in urgency. It takes time, and it forces me to take time too.  \nTime to let watercolor dry. Time to let ideas come to life.  \nTime to choose colors, or simply sit in front of a blank canvas before beginning.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nBut solitude has its shadows too. Despite my deep attachment to it, I have sometimes felt  \nthat tightness in my throat, that weight I cannot quite name.\n<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n<h2>Growth<\/h2>\n\n<p>\nI believe solitude is ambivalent. I love it more than I fear it, but I understand those  \nfor whom it carries sorrow, an endless emptiness.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nWhen I turned 18, I lived alone in a small studio, and it was difficult.  \nI felt like I was suffocating, missing out on life. Since then, I\u2019ve lived with others,  \nsurrounded, supported, included.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nAnd now, I feel both sadness and joy \u2014 closing one chapter, opening another\u2026 alone.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"highlight\">\nMaybe that\u2019s what growing up is. Learning to be at peace with yourself.  \nCultivating your own garden\u2026 and offering its flowers to yourself.\n<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n\n<p>\nI\u2019m 25 today, and building my illustration business feels like a garden I want to nurture  \nfor the rest of my life. Not just financially\u2026 but as a way of living.\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"intro\">\nLet\u2019s see where this journey takes me.\n<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amet minim mollit non deserunt ullamco est sit aliqua amet sint. Velit officia consequat duis enim velit mollit. 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