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xoxoxoBruce 09-01-2010 10:24 AM

How to be alone
 
Found this at Cellarite Kisrael's site, and found it interesting.


Lamplighter 09-01-2010 10:39 AM

Very nice.
Sort of a dilemma...
Someone you'd like to meet, but then you'd break her solitude.

Pico and ME 09-01-2010 10:48 AM

That was wonderful. I was alone for a spell, well from age 27 to 40. (there was actually a short time during that period that I lived with a guy, but it wasn't a true partnership and I still felt somewhat alone). I shopped alone, ate out alone, I saw movies alone and I took trips alone (and I rate those as some of my all time best trips). The best time I had alone was the four years before I married my husband from age 36 to 40. Its not always easy, but I learned that being alone with myself is sometimes the best time for me.

Shawnee123 09-01-2010 10:51 AM

Wow, I don't even remember making that video. ;)

edit: I agree Pico, being alone has its ups and its downs, but I count my solo road trip to be among the coolest things I ever did.

And luckily, I've never felt weird going out to eat or to the movies by myself.

glatt 09-01-2010 11:05 AM

That was excellent.

She shot a bunch of that video herself, using a tripod, but she also had someone working the camera for several scenes. Ironic that for those scenes, she was talking about being alone while working with a partner.

I haven't been alone in a long time. I liked being alone. I miss it at times. But when I was alone, I missed being with other people. Grass is always greener, I guess.

xoxoxoBruce 09-01-2010 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pico and ME (Post 679786)
...I took trips alone (and I rate those as some of my all time best trips).

Yes, the advantage of traveling alone is you can be impulsive, change course on a whim, and do whatever suits your mood. :thumb:

Juniper 09-01-2010 01:14 PM

I've never lived alone.

But I love doing things alone.

Week after next I'm going on my very first road trip alone, staying in a hotel room for the first time alone. I'm very excited about it!

Trilby 09-01-2010 01:39 PM

I have a very hard time being anything BUT alone - and I LOVE it but - at the same time feel WEIRD for loving it and entertain niggling thoughts that maybe it is selfish and wrong of me to keep myself to myself - but it's always, always better that way.

I loved this, bruce. Thanks! It makes me feel okay about loving alone-ness and holding alone as my true desire.

classicman 09-01-2010 01:53 PM

Love the one you're with
Love the one you're with

Do doot doot doot doot doot doot doot
Do doot doot doot doot doot doot doot
Do do doot, Do do doot

SamIam 09-01-2010 02:23 PM

That was great, Bruce! I've been alone since breaking up with my so-called BF a little over a year ago. Sometimes I get lonely, but for the most part, I'm okay with it. I have gone on many camping trips - just me and the back country, and I remember those expeditions as some of the most fun I've ever had.

skysidhe 09-01-2010 02:53 PM

nice

Gravdigr 09-01-2010 04:53 PM

A huge difference between being alone, and being lonely.


JBKlyde 09-01-2010 07:02 PM

sitting in a dug out having never got a hit is also a very lonely thing.

toranokaze 09-01-2010 10:04 PM

There is a value to solitude to stillness, but isolation is different. I agree one doesn't have to be dating someone to matter, but still even in her video she mentions having human contact.

Isolation not speaking with friends not being round people not engaging in society for awhile is the first steep in insanity.

HungLikeJesus 09-01-2010 10:34 PM

Does the Cellar count?


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