TIGHTening
Are you lonely? Are you like me? Do you find yourself in a hundred conversations every day? Do you see dozens of faces? Smile? Laugh with friends? Share things? Share meals? Drinks? Then, you find yourself in a solitary moment with the defining ache that never goes away these days. It barely seems to ebb any more. We are together, but we are alone. I'm finding the space around me grows greater. I'm finding the intimacy in my tiny circle has become miniscule...nearly non-existent. I fight for it and it bites back at me...like a vicious snake, denying me entrance. Indeed, when I look for intimacy amongst humans these days, I feel rejection. Very few want it. We feel alone. I am alone. You are alone. Actually, we are deluded. Not one of of us is alone. Not even one. I listen to the children I see every week. There is at least forty of them on any given week. I come home to four more every evening. This is what they are saying: "I'm growing up to