In a world that never stops moving, we became obsessed with making cool groups of friends, we love being popular and being in the spotlights. As this obsession grows, monophobia grows bigger with it and it continues to feed our craving for attention and belonging day by day.

The fear of being alone is a feeling we live with, yet we avoid talking about it. People who suffer from this type of phobia are various: there are those who fear to be alone at night, others who fear spending the rest of their life alone while others might find themselves bearing the fear of being alone in public.

We all know at least one friend who has issues with being alone in public, these are the people who always need to be escorted, who can’t even sit in a cafe or a restaurant all by themselves and I actually think each one of us has this fear in a way or another, only we don’t admit it most of time. The great news is that it’s totally okay to be alone in public and you ought to be okay with it, as simple as it sounds and opposite to what our social anxiety keeps telling us, people do not pity you when you are standing there alone, nor think that you’re a weirdo. The truth is no one really cares, everyone is too busy, or acting so. So next time you find yourself without company in a public or a roomful place filled with groups of people, strangers to you, stop yourself from worrying way too much about it and realize that it only looks awkward if you think it is.