[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.
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[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.
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