Day 86.

thoughts about the lovely How to Be Alone video-- from a while back.

It's only been recently that I've been okay with being alone. I flick on the lamp and settle into the floor with a book. I write and I sing and I am happy. I don't think everyone feels like this though. I think we have forgotten. We go to the bathroom in groups and shout through the stalls, we bring our phones everywhere, and we look down at them if by some mistake we end up in a corner. Loner is the worst insult any of us can think to throw. Untouchable.. but it's a choice and it's one we all need to make once in awhile, because we can't even connect to each other when we're so bothered with trying. And if we just let it be-- we'd learn to be alone again, so we know who we are. So that we don't, as Joan Didion writes, run away to find oursevles and find that no one is home.