the slightest hint of presence

The beatles sang, "all the lonely people, where do they all come from" and I ask the same question.

In high school you have the awkward stage where we get lonely and antisocial. Not everyone but I think may people gets in a stage where we just want to be alone, all by our emo selves. I've alway wondered why we feel the need to isolate ourselves and why some of people are bent on being antisocial because I think, as cliche as it sounds, nobody wants to be lonely.

People need people.

I'm not talking about alone time or "me time" but what I can't understand is how people can say they like being completely by themselves all the time. It seems like an innate urge to be around someone. Even when we want to be alone, I think we need someone near us. In the library when you're immersed in a book, it's just more comfort to have others immersed around you, whether they are strangers who don't make a noise or friends who keep bugging you.

I don't believe in antisocial-ity. I believe in stages, phases, and modes. And I believe we all need to be with people, it makes us one step closer to wholeness, one step closer to sanity, one step closer to happiness. That's why i believe we should all fight apathy, fight the urge to be lonely, fight for right to be with people. Because even if they are only ghosts, the slightest hint of presence is enough.

birth

I always figured blogs were useless and an avenue to waste time in . My first blog, the infamous smells like teen spirit xanga, was just something I could do while cutting third period Music Appreciation. I spent most of my time adding html this and fancy skins to my xanga page. The rest of the time was spent giving e props instead of focusing of the main goal of a blog.....to write.

With the birth of this blog (which I am sure will soon be abandoned with time unfortunately) I vow to simply write. Write about anything that's worth writing about. So I won't be writing about those SATs that were lyk omfg soooo harrd!!

Maybe I'll write about chili fries and the Philosophy section of Barnes and Noble instead.