2 posts tagged “loneliness”

I had to stop by the high school today for some "mandatory" senior matters.  Tedious, but it was an excuse to leave my economics lecture early and I took it.

Upon meeting with the woman in charge of the "operation," I was greeted with a small packet of papers.  Sifting through and filling them out, I found one for grad night, one where you put the names of peers that you want to sit with, collect their initialed signatures, and turn it back in.

And I thought of all of my high school peers, smiling faces, signing each others papers and I just sat there clutching mine, all those blank spaces.  Everybody would have already... and I...

A horrid voice went off in my mind, "Page, you didn't make friends here."

And the woman looked over at my motionless pen, to which I looked up to her, "What do I... do about this?"

Today it really struck me, what percentage of the my peers complain of loneliness.

Loneliness comes at different degrees, but to think so many people feel that way.

It's ironic; is it not?