I often feel much lonelier in social situations (weddings, parties and other big group settings especially) than I do when I'm actually alone.

at some point, we all confused being alone with loneliness. You can be with crowds and still feel lonely. You can be all by yourself and still feel whole.

you're developing such a unique style :)

"[...]building a solid relationship with yourself is one of the most important things to do" is a sentence everyone deserves to hear and take to heart. Life is infinitely more bearable when you're comfortable in your own solitary space ❤

I finally found someone who thinks exactly like me: "that being alone is the best thing to do." Because most people don't understand that we stay in full contact with our inner self. It's the best way to get to know ourselves, do self-analysis and be grateful to ourselves. Our ethical and moral values ​​are strengthened. Now this opens up a big internal discussion with ourselves, because we end up being more selective in social and personal relationships, greatly reducing the circle of friendships, because we no longer share the opinions of people outside our way of life. Much peace and positive energy to you.🌹🌻🌹🌻

when you have taken control over your dopamine, you can feel completely happy, even alone.

This is what i feel too. I'm genuinely happier when alone.

Sometimes when I have to join a group of people, around whom I'm not too comfortable, I feel awkward and have to pull out my phone to look at something just to avoid the awkwardness. Now that I'm more confident with myself, I can join conversations more comfortably and don't have to use the phone to hide myself away so much anymore. But when meeting people but not able to connect with anyone of them, when the conversations are shallow on the surface of a topic that I don't care, I feel lonely - my social energy is drained from such situations. I believe as introverts, spending time to connect with ourselves, or connect with good friends who listens to our sharing and we can listen to their sharing, that's when we feel fulfilled.

One of the best things you can enjoy in life is yourself.🥰

I absolutely agree. I'm out alone on long rides or runs on most days and always fet asked things like "Isn't that boring all by yourself" or "Don't you feel lonely". I think many people aren't comfortable alone because they are deep down not actually happy with who or how they are or are out of balance in some other way but do not allow themselves to admit it or explore why that might be the case. It's far easier to try to avoid getting to know yourself by constantly distracting yourself with people around you or always doing something or even multiple things at a time. That's up until a certain point when it ll comes crashing down.

I can relate so much to your thought. Maybe we are sometimes inclined to judge ourselves because society constantly tells us what's right and wrong, not because we feel bad when we are alone.

To truly know yourself, you need to be alone with your thoughts and get to know the real you. In the presence of others we all wear a mask.

living in a place like that... alone? yeah thats so peaceful

I wish more KZfaq vlogs look like this. The authenticity and realness of each moment make me somehow feel peace

I´m agree with you, i´m a nature lover too. I will enjoy my loneliness in one of these places, but i don´t have nothing similar.😭😭😭

I've been making relationship with myself for 3 years to be alone. My life's getting better . I'm not afraid of having not friends, girlfriend, or missing out of parties. I don't say that I'm an antisocial person. Instead, it makes me better in socialize because I know the time to socialize and time for myself. Thanks for your video❤

I may be the life of the party, but I truly cherish my solitude. As a writer, photographer, and avid reader, I have no trouble keeping myself entertained. That "alone time" is essential for me - it's when I connect with my best friend: me. At social gatherings, I find that after about 20 minutes, I'm already longing to return to my cherished "me time." I empathize with those who require constant external stimulation. My advice is simple: dedicate more time to solitude and acquaint yourself with the most extraordinary person in your life - you!

i spend all my life alone and i can tell you that those are the times when you learn a LOT and get to understand how this world works while getting the opportunity to get to know yourself better and listen to your own self WITHOUT the noise that is all around us constantly.

I can resonate with this. Loving that I'm not alone in the appreciation for being alone.

Being alone is easy. Being lonely is devastating. Being alone with conviction is hard. Being lonely with conviction is self-suffering.

Hello i m Clément from France and i just want to say thank you for sharing your thoughts .

the countryside where you are living is stunning! beautifully shot too. i love spending time alone, especially outdoors but happy just to be indoors cooking, making music, or working on a project too. it's fun to balance - some social time and a lot of alone time.

keep going girl 🎈 you create really good content. and nice to see we have similar thoughts and mental.

This is amazing. Thanks for the well spend time here. Love from Brazil :)

Feeling at peace after watching this .Had a long day🥲❤️

thank you for sharing your experience, it was a very pleasant and enjoyable vibe throughout the whole video. Keep it up🤞🏼

I've always put it like this: "You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life." Great video, and seriously will never not be happy t hear this thing talked about, because it's a weekly occurrence for me wherein people just don't understand how you can be completely content with your own company if you learn how to treat yourself like a good friend.

Very nice calming video and insane scenery!!

Your video really inspires me. It also makes me quite jealous of how far you are with self-development. ❤ I am now trying to work on this myself. It really is a beautiful adventure and I am getting to know myself better every day.

This is amazing!! I find Solace and peace in times when im alone!! This was so relatable!! Great work

As an artist, I've been intentionally trying to find some space to work and think alone. Thanks for sharing your journey and process. It's inspiring!

What a beautifully filmed video! Solitude in nature can be so good for the soul! I’m inspired to make more videos a little bit like this one ❤

A beautiful, thought-provoking video. Thank you Ottilie 💚

Thank you for this. So many people don't understand being alone. Your insights are spot on. Great videos.

Wow. Completly blown away by the quality and beauty of your videos. Some of the most thoughtfully made videos I have ever seen. Looking forward to seeing more 🔥

Hi Ottilie, I love your content and saw all of your videos and I really loved this one. I myself am a very lonely person. Since I was a Child I need some time in the day to just be alone even having lot’s of friends and relatives to be with. Today I’m a 41 year old father of two lovely kids with 16 and 2 years old and I’m married with my wife since my 24. Even today with all of this scenario in my life I can’t pass one day without being alone in solitude. Being alone in nature just listening and watching is one of my life’s pleasures. I’m also aware that the “dose makes the venom”, and try not to exagerate, even so till this day I never feel that I was lonely, but find your balance and be happy with that… Keep on making those magical videos, but don’t rush it… Cheers from Portugal.

It’s very touching how well your thoughts and feelings are articulated through. From the first shot to the last. Thank you for sharing your journey! Subscribed

I have spent a year on the small island in Denmark mostly by myself. Spend this time reading lots of books and just wandering around. I did find peace with myself and learned to spend time with myself. I had my special places to sit and daydream, I slept for 8+ hours a day, did some exercise but for the most of the day I just spend time thinking. After a full year of doing so I was ready to return to people and now - 10 years after this experience I am really good at being alone, whenever I need to stay by myself I never got bored and I have a bit different perspective on people who are by themselves in restaurants or cinema or wherever - I see it as special time they have with themself

Hey, that was phenomenal! I love your style. Congrats on finding the peace to live alone.

What a nice video. For a time to answer this is ok. And another time a reminder says no. More of your own.

We say "spend" time alone, but it we should say "invest" time alone because it gives you something in return such: peace, clarity… (loved your video 😊I too used to hate piano lessons😂)

I don’t know that I can be alone for a long time but it would be nice to do a solo trip sometime though that can prove hard when you’re married and both share a passion for traveling to new places, feels selfish.

Such a wonderful message and beautiful shots to accompany the amazing storytelling! Bravo ❤️💫🙏 keep spreading your light and creativity! It is such a gift to enjoy the time we spend with oneself! Much love and guidance my friend 💛

As an introvert myself I've come to the point that self-acceptance is key when it comes to enjoying solitude. That's because it can often be us being self-critical and not truly embracing our preferences. When someone asks me if I feel lonely, I am not offended by this question at all. I just say that I rarely feel lonely and that I need to spend time by myself to recharge my batteries. If I get asked further questions I usually explain to people what introversion is all about based on the books and articles I read on the subject. If someone still finds it weird then it's probably not a person I need in my life (I don't go round and ask people why they have to be around people all the time - I accept them and respect their preferences if their lifestyle makes them happy). Overall it comes down to our culture that promotes extroversion. Open offices, group work, networking parties, etc. But I again I believe it's up to us to be comfortable in our own skin and to embrace our choice of how we want to live our life. I love solitude, it really is a great way to reconnect with yourself. To find out your values, what you like to do, anything that needs processing (e.g. trauma), unmet needs, clarity and peace. Hobbies such as reading, journaling, meditation and being surrounded by nature just enrich my soul ❤ Lastly despite all of that I sometimes do feel lonely. But what helps is not being around a lot of people or having tons of friends. What helps is just having a few people who I connect to on a deeper level. So I feel understood ❤ It's interesting that often being around people who don't get me makes me more lonely 🤔

wow the compostition of each shot is amazing. just love it

We love your way ❤️🙏🌲

Hi from France, Your video made me feel calm and peaceful. I regularly want to step back from the permanent activity around me but feel bad about it, because we are supposed to enjoy being surrounded by people, because it's joyful to share with friends. And it's true. But sometimes what I need is just being alone. After watching this, I konw it's fine. I'll go read my book now. Bye, and thank you

Beautiful and deep message which I resonate with immensely🙏. New subscriber🌾☺️

You’re the only constant in your life ❤

I loveeee this video!! You have such a unique style, I love the way you visualize your brain spinsels! It’s like we are seeing your journal, it’s so intimite! Thanks for sharing it!🙏🏻🤍🦋🌞

Hey Ottilie, I spend a lot of time by myself. I work remotely and don't have any friends, but I think I'm okay with the solitude. I think I understand you.

I love ur voice ✨❤

thank you for the video, cheers from Venezuela 🇻🇪 far far away from Sweden 👋

Your comment about piano lessons-- oh boy, that's the same for me!

Great video! I hope you get to experience some of those times „alone“ with Jonne, too.

This video is so good 😭👍

I think people in this comment section would appreciate the song "Bru C - Introspection". My favourite quote from it is "You were born alone and you will die all by yourself" which also really shows that you need to come to terms with ultimately being alone and that that's fine.

Great video! I see a lot of myself in you. I need to be alone a lot, it is my default. I have trouble thinking clearly otherwise. =) It took me about 30 years to fully grasp that every feeling is there to be felt and that they are there for a reason. There is nothing wrong with not feeling perfect all the time. It is all a part of a beautiful journey but it certainly can feel like hell in the moment sometimes. Surrender has been a huge key for me to enjoy life more. Hope you have a wonderful day, take care!

So glad I found your video. It really makes me think. Really nice video style by the way! :)

Thanks for the video. Loved it. Wish I found your channel sooner.

loved every second of it!

Such an amazing video :D

This video inspired me to write a song. Lovely to stumble upon

I admire this lifestyle

Ottilie, I love this viedeo so much! well done!!!

I like your content so much and I love being lonely

i needed this right now

I love this video ❤

Wow, wat een wijze woorden. Supergoed!

Great video!

Great video ❤

wow! it took me less than a minute to hit the subscribe button! thank you so much for the video.

Im glad I clicked your video

Great Video.

wow what a stunning video 🙃

Thank you

As always AMAZING video

Beautiful everything 🥹🫧

Take me with you… I’ll build my house 3 miles away from you. So we both can live alone together.

Those who do not invest in being alone will never know what they are missing.

I wish I had met you in Maastricht :)

I've been freelancing and remote working for ... uff a long time. (getting old here 0.0) and the reality is, that I learned to reach out, spend time together and get to know people - a lot more intentionally. If you need to associate closeness with proximity are you truly close?

"A man among friends is king but a man alone is ruler of his kingdom" Thanks for Sharing...

I love the way you express yourself, made me think! Beautiful! Funny enough my name is Ot ;)

solitude is necessary sometimes to edevelop yourself

Oh yes I do.

This kind of videos makes me think that I am living an empty life

Never thought I would relate to a KZfaq video at this kind of level, living in the middle of nowhere and playing the piano too I was curious if you played all the background pieces of piano in this video?

Vous êtes attractive avec la douceur de votre voix affectueusement et sentimentalement et harmonieusement à vous de choisir ❤ didier trouche France.

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!" Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?” -Nietzsche, The Gay Science

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Just found your channel a few weeks ago. Love the content! By the way may I ask what camera gear you use?

How do you make these beautiful soothing videos, one tutorial pls

Filmer som dette er grunnen til jeg at jeg har tatt opp filming igjen. Nydelig!

3.5 years alone now

Let's be alone together.

I love this idea, but Im wondering how this is achievable? Outside of say, retirement (or saving up a lot of money and living in a remote area for a while) this lifestyle isn't achievable for most. How have you done it, practically speaking? Do you work from home? Are you living off of savings?

This video really empowered me to believe I am strong when I am in solitude. I’ve been feeling an on & off feeling, this ambivalence that a person is poignant when alone. Ofc I do feel that as many like being social, but I also feel liberated to be alone. That I can be my own character and can do what I wanna do and feel like my own protagonist in my own story. An enigmatic character. I have heard it from other people that being alone withholds a strength, but hearing it from you feels… well, it’s kinda of a serendipitous feeling. Like Glory that someone opines herself and expresses the truth about one’s soul. I can kinda relate to you as well. For example like what you said about the Piano thing. I used not wanna learn new things for my own bizarre reasons, but deep down I love hearing and reading words and seeing how they are spelled and pronounced. Please don’t leave KZfaq! Your videos are glamorous! So are you❤️🤩

also, can you tell us which microphone u r using to record the shot @ 2:13...?? the audio is very clear even though u r outdoors...

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