Emma Chamberlain

And so I have been actively working on dealing with those slightly anxious feelings about doing things alone.

So this is a very...

This is the perfect time for this question to come up because this is something I've been dealing with lately.

The first thing I do to help myself with this is remind myself of the reality of the situation, okay?

People aren't paying that close of attention to me.

They're really not.

An exercise that I do is I think of how I perceive other people doing activities alone.

When I'm at a cafe, when I'm at a thrift store and I notice that somebody's shopping alone, getting a coffee alone, do I even think twice about it?

No, I don't.

Do me a favor next time you're doing something alone and you start to feel anxious, like people are judging you for doing things alone.

And try to think of one time that you've ever seen someone out doing something alone and you've thought, what a loser, where are their friends?

You've never thought that, I bet.

I bet you've never thought that.

I bet you can't even think of one stranger that you've seen doing something alone ever.

I bet you can't even remember that because it doesn't matter because you don't care.

People care more about themselves than about you.

Not in a mean way, just in a human way.

We're not paying that close attention to what other people are doing.

Now let's imagine the most stressful case scenario.

Somebody is paying attention to what you're doing.