It is generally agreed today to spend spare time with lots of friends sharing the same ideas or similar lifestyles. But it is important to keep in mind that we are all individuals and what it is good for one can not be acceptable for another. Let's start by considering the benefits of spending time on your own.

Firstly, there are many advantages to spending time alone. One is when you are alone you can take time to become invilved in activities that you really get kick out of. For instance, various hobbies that you always call off because of someone's opposite proposal or pressure. You would propably read books, listening to music, working out, doing shopping and so on. What is more, along the way you may explore skills and abilities which are might help in further life. 

Secondly, while you are alone you get better understanding of yourself. The point is when person is surrounded by varied people, familiar or unfamiliar, automatically you are under pressure, even thought you don't feel that. For example, when you have to take an important dessicion in your life you are at the crossroads: "What to be? What carreer to choose?". It is  known fact that others will probably suddegst plenty of options, being so confident about that. But how to express your likes, preferences, particularly your personality? You seem like suppressed by other's opinions. As a result, dissatisfaction and decreasing of self-esteem.

It is vital note that being lonely does not mean that person is unsocial or worse yet is outcast. The trouble is that it is hard to find someone who will definitely share the same ideas, believes or the way of life. As for me, I am tough kind of person, who does not get on fairly fast. I prefer to analyze peole and especialy their behaviour at first. In that way I try to protect myself from unpredictable and sudden frustration about people.

In conclusion I can say that it is up to everybody whether spend time alone or being in company of friends. "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken", as Oscar Wilde stated. We just need to understand and except people how they really are, without judgment and criticism.