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Mental Spat on an Airplane

I spend most of my days alone. I don’t know if that is good or bad. I like being alone, but often feel like I am wasting away as the rest of the world goes by. Do other people feel like this? Do we all feel like we are just wasting away? No one talks about it.

I’m crazy, I say.
How so?
Stick around long enough, and you will see.

Maybe I am not wasting my life? Every day, I’m busy. I’m busy doing things I want to do. Well, sort of. More like, doing things I need to do to live a happy life… someday. Damn, I really hope I am happy someday. In the meantime, thank God for weed.

Tell me about yourself, he says.
Oh, I don’t know about all that.
You can’t scare me.
Oh… I don’t know about all that.

But technically – in the scheme of things – aren’t we all just wasting our lives? I mean, our lives are meaningless – in the scheme of things. We all think we matter as individuals. We don’t. None of us. That kind of thinking can really fuck you up. It’s the only kind of thinking I got. What the fuck am I doing? What the fuck is anyone doing? No one knows.

I could never hurt you, he says.
That is very optimistic of you.
You know I couldn’t.
Stick around, and say that after you see… Nevermind.


Soul Searching

I am a real terror, a nightmare. I feel bad for those who know me personally.

What the fuck is wrong with the ones who actually choose to stick around? They are all messes, too. But, that’s okay.

They feel things intensely; their thoughts are complex. They are all fascinating in their own ways.

I appreciate their neurosis, their attempts at empathy. I am grateful for our extraordinary times together.

I want to be a good friend. They all deserve a good friend.

But yet, I still feel so detached. Something is missing.

My soul craves a mate of identical dimension – on all fronts. Another psyche with the same capacity for thought and knowledge, with the same moral compass and mental derangements.

I have yet to meet my match.

Perhaps soulmates do not exist. Perhaps I should just focus on the friendships I already have.

But again, I am a real terror, a nightmare. For the sake of my sanity, I need to find the mate my soul craves. I need to connect with a psyche of identical dimension.

How else am I to make any sense of my existence? The simplistic explanations won’t cut it.

Why, oh why? Life can be so overwhelming and lonely, when your mind reaches unparalleled depths.