go to the movies by myself

Yeah, so I was dodging college and needed something to do so I went and seen a movie by myself. It was only me and a couple up the back. I actually enjoyed it. I did feel a bit silly asking for a ticket myself and sitting in the middle of the screen hall all on my lonesome. But i started to relax a bit when the film started!
Id recommend it as its something different and you can always say, ” iv been to the movies alone!”

Well, this is something for me to try next week, I hope!

I did this fairly often. I liked being the mysterious woman who ate alone and went to movies alone. One of my co-workers who also traveled to towns on his own told me that he always bought two movie tickets even though he was alone.

for some reason when i was younger it was like it was totally socially outcasting to be seen anywhere by yourself. now i sort of like it :P

the cinema, I went to see Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd all by myself. :) I actually enjoyed it, it was the first time I’ve been to the movies alone. I think I’ll do it again some time. It is fun to go with friends, but to go on my own isn’t bad either.

I am comfortable eating by myself, traveling by myself, shopping by myself and even going to the bar during “the game” by myself (as a female, this isn’t always so easy). But the one thing I am still self-consious about is going to the movies by myself. Seriously, what is the issue? Sometimes I want to see a decent movie and none of my friends are free. No one is going to judge me! No one is going to point and laugh! It’s just silly…so next week I’m just going to go to a movie by myself and get over it. Horrah

I wanted to go see Elizabeth: The Golden Years, but my husband is out of town and so are my friends that might want to see it. So I went alone. It’s the first time I’ve done this and it was nice. And nobody stared like I thought they would. I’d do it again.

I have not decided that I’m ready to do this. It shouldn’t be so hard. It’s getting up the nerve that’s so hard. I’m still thinking about it…:P

but if you try it, you might actually start to prefer it. lol. seriously, once you’ve done it, i can almost guarantee you’ll love it.

if you’re really nervous, try your local indie movie house first (i’m assuming it’s smaller, more laid back feel), and work your way up to the mall multiplex.

have fun!

I finally went and did this today. I don’t know why it took me so long. Actually, I do. Money has been tight for me over the last year and going to the movies is expensive.

So it’s ironic I should go and do it now, after Christmas when money is the tightest it’s been. But I found a movie I wanted to see and I promised myself I would. I nearly changed my mind this morning, but I could feel how disappointed I’d be if I didn’t.

Perhaps on some level I thought I wasn’t worth it. It’s nice to have busted through that.

I did a bit of thinking today on why exactly it was that I wanted to do this in the first place. Some of it was because I felt it was a hassle to arrange a time for a group to go—inevitably there’s someone who can’t make it, all the fuss of meeting there and finding seats. I thought some of it was also because there wasn’t anyone else who wanted to see the same movies.

But I discovered neither of those are strictly true. The real reason is to do with judgement. If I go on my own, the people I know won’t be judging me on what I choose to see. Plus, I feel there’s less of a need to judge the film itself; I can just enjoy it without picking it to pieces (and maybe finding out it wasn’t such a good movie after all). Perhaps it was the university education, but just enjoying and not analysing something seems to be a dying activity.

And it’s for these reasons that I’m not going to say what movie I saw, only that I enjoyed it. This way it can just be a special experience I can hold close.