Dancing with yourself, how to talk to statues, and what squirrels have to do with love.

The idea of being alone is disconcerting. The reality of it, challenging. As someone who has spent the better part of last year battling loneliness and trying hard to embrace it, this video spoke to me. It is beautiful and eloquent and gives me hope that someday I will be able to fully appreciate my own company as effortlessly and gracefully as I'd like. Someday, I'll surrender to all the non-human stimuli that surround me, reaching out eagerly, not cautiously. Someday, abstraction will give way to empiricism and I'd have last year to thank for helping me build a way to true self-reliance.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/08/16/how-to-be-alone/