How to Be Alone
Monday, August 2nd, 2010It can easily be passed off as social ineptitude, but I find real strength in those who know how to be comfortable with being alone; the self-contented wallflowers at any casual blur of parties; those who understand the art of listening, who shrug passing trends off with a friendly smile and a nod (without the frantic gasp to participate); these are people who can truly think for themselves and listen to the voice within them without the static pressure of social norms and expectations screaming from the sidelines. I’d rather be the wallflower than the impatient hummingbird, always texting someone who is always elsewhere, and for whom their gaze is limited to whatever is beyond the pale, but never closer.
A lovely live-action revival of Tanya Davis’s poem “HOW TO BE ALONE” by Andrea Dorfman.
Graceee
