Tagged: Ewan McGregor

Beginners (2010)

Beginners

Anna: But now I’m always in a new apartment or in another hotel somewhere.

Oliver: How do you keep hold of friends? Or boyfriends?

Anna: Makes it very easy to end up alone. To leave people.

Oliver: You can stay in the same place and still find ways to leave people.

And as I grow older and hopefully wiser, I learn that both are true. Changing places makes it progressively easy to leave people or not fully commit to them. But then again, you can stay in the same place and leave them just as easily as well.

After all, as Robin Williams said “I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.”

There is no worse loneliness than the one you feel when you are not alone.