Being alone becomes useful when you stop treating it like something went wrong.

Being alone gets read as a symptom, as though it indicates something has failed, and that reading makes the time itself unpleasant regardless of its content. Treated as a normal and chosen state, the same hours become restorative rather than evidence of a problem.

Try deliberately choosing some solitude rather than only tolerating it when it happens. Plan it, protect it, and do something in it you actually like. The shift is mostly about framing, and once the time stops carrying a verdict about your life, it becomes possible to get something from it.