Sunday, August 2, 2009

This World: Alone (Pt. 1)

Just some random thoughts from tonight...
What would you give or do to not ever have to feel lonely again? If you've ever felt completely alone, then you will understand what I'm asking.
The pain of loneliness, the feeling of being in a city full of people, but not belonging. Unnoticed. Forgotten. Alone.
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Everyone is born with a certain capacity to love/give. Some more so than others. Consider the example of the individual who has a great capacity to give, and her interaction with the people around her who live only for themselves and to take from others. At what point does she reach her breaking point and decide that she just can't do it any longer?
What happens then? Is she irreparably changed for the worst, living out the rest of her life bitter and morose? Or does she, being emotionally devastated, end up taking her own life after fully realizing the implications of a cruel cold world?
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What about a third path? What about beauty and love? What about the majesty of nature? What about sacrificial giving? Are these things alone enough? Or does life require something more in order to LIVE.

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