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[edithmatilda]

Hmm. Should I go to the cinema on my own? I think I should but my neuroses might disagree. It is this cinema so it is both more and less scary.

I feel tired which I think means I should eat.

Comments

[rob_t_firefly]

I've always liked going to the cinema alone.

[edithmatilda]

I might if I had the confidence but I am a bit of a sociophobe As You May Know. Also it feels different when it's not remotely from choice.

[diarytypething]

Going to the cinema is not a sociable activity. You sit in the dark for two hours looking at a screen, and you're not allowed to make comments because the other people object. There is absolutely no reason why you should need to have someone else with you, but then some people are incapable of peeing in a separate toilet cubicle from their friend.

[edithmatilda]

Um, I need someone else there because it is a big space full of humans and it scares me. Also I have spent so many years being on my own that sometimes I really can't get over the feeling that I'd be going to the cinema on my own because I have no friends rather than from choice. Also I like talking about the film afterwards. Additionally, a small volunteer-run cinema is not comfortingly anonymous in the same way. But yes, I know that in theory it is perfectly OK, it's just that in my specific clingy-loser case it is a bit fraught.

Paul was on the bar tonight though, so I lurked and talked to him or sat being OK-ish on my own. That was quite good.

[wishfulaces]

Yes! Go! I've rarely had trouble going to the cinema by myself--I might have to get over some initial embarrassment when I arrive and sidle into the theater--but, as noted above, you're in the dark for two hours. Who the devil is going to notice you?

[edithmatilda]

People will notice me as I go in and THROW ROCKS. Obviously. It is not the sane bit of me that fears cinemas-on-my-own, it is the bit that equally fears shops and buses and such.

[wishfulaces]

Yes, but who goes around carrying rocks to throw at people anymore? It's so passe.

(Yes, I have trouble with that bit too, but my desire to see movies can usually overcome that fear. Yours can too! I should be a motivational film.)

[insaneizzi]

I think it's a good idea, I just usually take a big packet of sugar with me to ease worry when sitting alone. :D

[insaneizzi]

Oh, btw, do you want the Shrek versions of Nick Cave and the other dude? Erm, Tom Waits?

[edithmatilda]

Goodness yes.

[rob_t_firefly]

I still think you should go to the cinema.

[edithmatilda]

That cinema is currently between addresses. I did go to its closing party but I'm not sure that counts.

I am still alive. I see that you are also still alive. Good.