Hard Truths To Carry Into 2021

A personal & blunt take on how loneliness is a function of our self-worth, relationships expire & the depth of our lives is a choice.

Rachael Annabelle
4 min readJan 2, 2021

I’ve been contemplating on whether I should publish this piece for a while now since it is rather personal to a certain extent, but I figured that there’s no harm in sharing if it can help someone else who may be struggling with the same things as I. Life isn’t always sunshines and rainbows anyway.

My friends never fail to remind me how much of an inspiration I am to them, but they fail to realize that I am only human as well. I live, laugh, love, and lose just as much as they.

So for what it’s worth, here are some of the hard realizations I’ve had in 2020.

#1. Our loneliness is a function of our self-worth. Don’t pin it to work.

Tinder, Bumble, Hinge — I’ve tried them, and ditched them.

For the past 2 years, I’ve attributed loneliness to being single. I blamed my vulnerabilities, traumas, disappointments and mistakes.

What I have come to realize is that it wasn’t because I’ve been single — but because I’ve pinned my self-worth to my work. Entrepreneurship is a lonely…

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Rachael Annabelle

knottedbrains.com | googler. founder @gullie.io. photographer. creative consultant. pasta fanatic & occasional nerd.