- Do you wanna go out on a date with me?
- Sure, what do you wanna do?
- My little Parisian water bottle.
And then nobody.
- What am I doing, oh my god.
(mid-tempo reggaeton music)
It is the season of love, y'all.
And within the season of love,
we deal with a lot of pressure.
Pressure from society, friends, and family
about who are we with, who's our boyfriend,
who's our girlfriend, will you ever have kids,
will you ever settle down, why am I not a grandmother yet?
Needless to say, we don't really talk about self love.
The idea of just loving with who we are.
Couple years ago, I did a video where I got to date myself.
And it was one of the most phenomenal experiences ever.
And I thought, why not bestow this journey onto my friends?
So, I am going to have my two very single friends
Ivan and Joyce
go on a date by themselves, take themselves out.
With three rules.
One, is that they have to take themselves out to eat.
Two, they have to do a normal day function, but alone.
And three, they have to do something deep
and personal to them.
All with the knowledge and hopefully the experience
of really seeing how it's important
to just be ourselves, and how that's okay.
You guys excited?
- Yeah, we're excited,
I'm ready, okay. - Super excited, yes!
- Okay, go love yourselves, go love yourselves.
- So right now I'm about to go eat
at my favorite restaurant,
and I'm gonna get my favorite coffee ever in town.
All right, let's go.
- There's this really bougie restaurant
next door to the office.
So I'm gonna get a really cute meal
and spend time with myself.
- I could see how people, they're just awkward
going to eat by yourself, but to be honest,
to me its fun, to me it's a way to reflect.
So I'm excited for today.
- So I'm at the restaurant.
And it's really nice to just
take yourself out and do something great.
Some water.
A little candle.
And then nobody!
We love that for Joyce.
- [Ivan] All right, so this is my meal.
Scrambled eggs with salmon.
- I'm having my favorite drink, an extra dirty martini.
It's actually really nice, you know?
Being on my dream date, but with just me kind of.
Yeah, I love it.
(soft upbeat music)
- Thank you!
- That wasn't that bad.
It was a little bit awkward,
only because there were a lot of people
in meetings and just chit-chatting it,
and then there was me just looking at the sky.
But the food was delicious, the coffee was really good.
- So, my personal thing is,
I'm gonna put this hydrating face mask on
and watch a movie, 'cause I love to do that.
- I'm gonna now do challenge number two.
I'm gonna do something that is for myself.
I purchased a basketball like six months ago,
and I haven't used it once, because I don't have the time.
So today I'm gonna make the time and go throw some hoops.
- Amazing.
This is really my happy place,
even though I know I look crazy. (laughs)
- And I don't know, I'm just watching The Circle.
Super great, you know?
(fast-paced Latin music)
- You saw that, you saw that, you saw that!
I'm not saying I'm good at basketball,
but I'm warming up to it.
I wanted to try to get better,
so that's what I'm doing, and this is a start.
I'm very happy that I did it.
I accomplished something, and I did it for me.
- What I like to do after a date is actually go for a walk.
If you ever go on a date with me,
you would know that if we go for a walk
after the date, I'm super into you.
So I'm just gonna walk a couple blocks.
Really look at my surroundings and just vibe, you know?
- All right, so I'm back at my house.
And I'm ready to go on a date with myself.
But first, I gotta ask myself
if I wanna go on a date.
Yo, Ivan, you wanna go out on a date with me?
Whoa, that sounds really fun, let's go.
(cheerful music)
- I'm gonna try to do the roller coaster.
Here we go.
Whee!
(laughs)
Whoa!
I'm the only one on this ride.
Live my best life, honestly.
What's better than a date
than making some physical memories, right?
(photo shutter clickng)
What am I doing, oh my god.
Look at this masterpiece.
This is self love, right here.
All right, well that was an experience.
I just finished the date with myself.
I feel like we barely take time
to hang out with ourselves.
We're always working, we're always moving so fast,
and we just don't stop to think and reflect
on how we're doing, how we're feeling.
- I think all in all this experience was amazing,
because it's like really being alone
and just really listening to yourself
and listening to your heart.
Isn't that what life's all about?
So, for everyone who's thinking about taking yourself
out on a self-date, I highly advise it.
- Thank you, Eli, for allowing me to go on this journey.
I had a blast.
And happy Valentine's Day, everybody!
Take care!
Mwah!
(cheerful music)
- [Child Narrator] Pero Like.