Being alone occasionally reveals whether your life actually fits you.

A life can look right on paper and not fit, and the misfit is easiest to feel in the quiet. Surrounded by activity and other people, you take your cues from the situation and the question never comes up. Alone, without those cues, the fit or lack of it becomes noticeable.

Give yourself an unstructured stretch and pay attention to what you feel about your life during it. Relief, restlessness, dread, contentment. It is imperfect evidence and it is more honest than anything you would report in company. Whatever comes up is worth writing down before it gets covered again.