Posted on 09 August 2010 by Shachar Pessis
If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you’ve not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren’t okay with it, then just wait. You’ll find it’s fine to be alone once you’re embracing it.
A video by fiilmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis.
[...] came across this beautifully written and performed poem through It Is Monday… Thinking Moment. The filmmaker is Andrea Dorfman, and the simple yet profound words were written and performed by [...]
[...] found this video poem (called how to be alone) featured on a site called it is monday and it’s something that i enjoyed watching today. [...]
August 10th, 2010 at 7:49 am
This is beyond awesome. Exactly what I need. Thank you! I am going to arm myself with this before I attend any social occasion where ironically we all in inadvertently feel so alone within the crowd.
August 10th, 2010 at 8:17 am
If it weren’t for @subWOW, I wouldn’t have seen this and I wouldn’t have sent it to a dozen of my friends. Beautiful. Stunning, really. And totally true. I think for me it’s more justification to take a walk alone and revel in being an introvert. S’all good.
August 11th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Fantastic poem and video, you’re hugely talented.. I’d say getting someone else to do the voice.. perhaps an old man, might of added a certain something to it..
Lovely work though, nice one
August 18th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
That made my day.
Actually, it made my year. Probably the last few years.
You are my new heroes, I don’t even know you.
Thanks.
August 27th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Hey, this is really quite thoughtful! Thanks for sharing this with us!
September 5th, 2010 at 12:34 am
That was cool. Thanks very much
September 5th, 2010 at 1:41 am
Beautiful and grounding …. A sharing, an energy, the reality, the wisdom, you - thank you.
September 5th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
This is beautiful. You are beautiful. <3
September 6th, 2010 at 12:33 am
Watching this has helped immensely. Thank you.
September 6th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
love!
September 6th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
This was beautiful
thanks Tanya I will cherish being alone a little more now that I saw this
September 8th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Loved, loved, loved this.
September 15th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Thank you. This was perfect.
September 21st, 2010 at 11:20 am
Wow, I’m glad I watched this. Nice work.
September 22nd, 2010 at 11:38 pm
For the past few days I have been playing this over and over again to calm my nerves when depression begins to hit. It always seems to make me smile and love that I am now single and focusing on the things I love the most
September 28th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
This was incredibly beautiful, however crushingly sad as well. I was already feeling a bit down, I’m single, gay, live at home, and a part of an American generation that for the first time ever won’t be better off than our parents. One of, if not the only consolation I have when these feelings of crushing sadness creep up is that everyone finds someone one day. That this solitary existence is not a state of permanence… But i guess it can be. Clearly there is noting wrong with that choice, it seems liberating and even beautiful, but for me, I don’t think I wanted to know how to be alone.
October 1st, 2010 at 1:56 pm
This was so beautiful. Thank you.
Also, I love your voice, it is wonderful.
October 24th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
i just failed in love with you Tanya.. beautiful..
November 21st, 2010 at 9:06 pm
This is beautiful. You are beautiful. Everything you say is so true and gorgeous. We should all take to heart your words.
November 25th, 2010 at 6:22 am
This is the single gayest thing I’ve ever seen. Fuck Canada.
December 21st, 2010 at 7:23 pm
I loved this, as a person who does not like to be alone and believes he needs people the same he needs air; this was indeed inspirational.
We all need to work on our Intrapersonal skills.
Carl from Web Courses Bangkok