
You’re no less intriguing a person when you’re eating solo dessertĪnd cleaning the whip cream from the dish with your finger When you are comfortable with eat-lunch-and-run take yourself out for

Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone The lunch counter, where you will be surrounded by chow-downers, Things you may have previously avoided based on your avoid-being-alone No one will think less if you’re hanging out with your breath If you’re shy you can hang out with yourself in the mirrors, you can put Supposed to talk much anyway so it’s safe there Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books and you’re not

Where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there, We could start with the acceptable places: the bathroom, the coffee shop, If you’ve not been alone much or if, when you were, you weren’t okay with it If you are, at first, lonely – be patient
