Loneliness
Loneliness, have you ever been alone? Not just when you are all by yourself, with no one else around, but really and truly alone? Perhaps alone but always in company. It’s not an easy thing. Not that I have experienced it that much, but I imagine it would be quite difficult. And believe it or not, there are a lot of people who go through this, watch as you walk down the hall, watch for the people that don’t talk to people, keep their ideas to themselves, sit alone at lunch, go home, and no one knows who they are, and what they’re like.
Do you know what it’s like to be alone? People do crazy things when they are alone. They get grumpy and grouchy, and scare people, or they get too friendly, and scare people. They do things they wouldn’t normally do if they had some company, things no one would do. They sit on their porch and yell at people who walk on their grass, they go to the zoo and start talking to monkeys, and name them weird things. They collect weird things like piggy banks or something. They get prank called by boys and girls that later come and take his money, only to befriend him, put him in the hospital, then he dies.
But then sometimes you have to be alone. When you live in a world where no one is alone, but yet, you are all alone not allowed to speak to each other, and share your ideas. You don’t get to choose your occupation, women and men are not allowed to love. There is a council which decides what you can and cannot do. Then you find something, a link to the past, and also to what could be the future, it is brilliance. But the council will not have it, and you are banished for thinking.
Perhaps you are an only child, you have two friends, one who lives miles away, the other is a sailor, who you hardly ever see. You grow up on a farm with your parents. One day your friend comes home, only to fall in love, he has betrayed you. Your other friend suffers death. You are alone.
Or perhaps you are stranded on an island, there is another on the island, but he is not your friend, in fact, he is a predator, and you are his prey. You have three days to outwit him, and he will let you go. But noone has ever escaped him, it’s your wit against his, and you can bet, he will come off conqueror. You are alone.
Yes, being alone can be hard, but it can also lead you do greatness, you just have to use it to your advantage.
Do you know what it’s like to be alone? People do crazy things when they are alone. They get grumpy and grouchy, and scare people, or they get too friendly, and scare people. They do things they wouldn’t normally do if they had some company, things no one would do. They sit on their porch and yell at people who walk on their grass, they go to the zoo and start talking to monkeys, and name them weird things. They collect weird things like piggy banks or something. They get prank called by boys and girls that later come and take his money, only to befriend him, put him in the hospital, then he dies.
But then sometimes you have to be alone. When you live in a world where no one is alone, but yet, you are all alone not allowed to speak to each other, and share your ideas. You don’t get to choose your occupation, women and men are not allowed to love. There is a council which decides what you can and cannot do. Then you find something, a link to the past, and also to what could be the future, it is brilliance. But the council will not have it, and you are banished for thinking.
Perhaps you are an only child, you have two friends, one who lives miles away, the other is a sailor, who you hardly ever see. You grow up on a farm with your parents. One day your friend comes home, only to fall in love, he has betrayed you. Your other friend suffers death. You are alone.
Or perhaps you are stranded on an island, there is another on the island, but he is not your friend, in fact, he is a predator, and you are his prey. You have three days to outwit him, and he will let you go. But noone has ever escaped him, it’s your wit against his, and you can bet, he will come off conqueror. You are alone.
Yes, being alone can be hard, but it can also lead you do greatness, you just have to use it to your advantage.
posted by -Lenny- | 7:13 PM
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