No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There’s nothing wrong with being alone.

The speaker frames solitude as a normal, even healthy condition rather than a social failure. “Birth announcements” evoke the steady public evidence of peers pairing off and starting families—milestones that can intensify comparison and anxiety. The counsel is practical: loneliness may arrive, but panic is optional; fear turns aloneness into catastrophe. Wasserstein’s line also critiques cultural scripts that equate adulthood with coupledom and parenthood, suggesting that self-possession and emotional steadiness matter more than matching others’ timelines. The final sentence is a direct revaluation: being alone is not inherently deficient, and can be endured without shame.