[00:00.00]Go to the movies.[00:01.48]Where it’s dark and soothing, alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community.[00:07.25]And then take yourself out dancing, to a club where no one knows you,[00:12.26]stand on the outside of the floor until the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you.[00:19.50]Dance like no one’s watching because they’re probably not.[00:23.43]And if they are, assume it is with best human intentions.[00:28.44]The way bodies move genuinely to beats, is after-all, gorgeous and affecting.[00:34.77]Dance until you’re sweating.[00:36.48]And beads of perspiration remind you of life’s best things.[00:40.21]Down your back, like a book of blessings.[00:42.98]Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you.[00:48.46]Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets,[00:52.80]they are always statues to talk to,[00:54.88]and benches made for sitting gives strangers a shared existence if only for a minute,[01:00.53]and these moments can be so uplifting and the conversation you get in by sitting alone on benches, might have never happened had you not been there by yourself.[01:11.89]Society is afraid of alone though.[01:15.28]Like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements.[01:18.61]Like people must have problems if after awhile nobody is dating them.[01:24.53]But lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless,[01:27.87]and lonely is healing if you make it.[01:31.24][04:19.41]Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself,[04:22.77]perhaps all those “sappy slogans” from pre-school over to high school groaning,[04:27.20]we’re tokens for holding the lonely at bay.[04:30.26]Cause if you’re happy in your head,[04:32.05]then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay.[04:35.30]It’s okay if no one believes like you,[04:37.98]all experience is unique,[04:40.62]no one has the same synapses,[04:42.60]can’t think like you,[04:44.11]for this be relieved,[04:45.41]keeps things interesting,[04:47.10]life’s magic things in reach.[04:49.50]