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Go to the movies. |
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Where it’s dark and soothing, alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community. |
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And then take yourself out dancing, to a club where no one knows you, |
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stand on the outside of the floor until the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. |
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Dance like no one’s watching because they’re probably not. |
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And if they are, assume it is with best human intentions. |
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The way bodies move genuinely to beats, is after-all, gorgeous and affecting. |
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Dance until you’re sweating. |
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And beads of perspiration remind you of life’s best things. |
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Down your back, like a book of blessings. |
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Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you. |
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Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets, |
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they are always statues to talk to, |
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and benches made for sitting gives strangers a shared existence if only for a minute, |
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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. |
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Society is afraid of alone though. |
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Like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements. |
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Like people must have problems if after awhile nobody is dating them. |
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But lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless, |
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and lonely is healing if you make it. |
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Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, |
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perhaps all those “sappy slogans” from pre-school over to high school groaning, |
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we’re tokens for holding the lonely at bay. |
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Cause if you’re happy in your head, |
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then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay. |
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It’s okay if no one believes like you, |
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all experience is unique, |
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no one has the same synapses, |
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can’t think like you, |
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for this be relieved, |
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keeps things interesting, |
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life’s magic things in reach. |
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