Communication Breakdown
I have a hard time communicating with people.
At least with any kind of consistency.
When you're isolated from your friends and family, you start to think that all e-mails and letters are being shot out into some void, never to see the light. You become very inward-looking and, in a way, very selfish. In your weaker moments, you play with the idea that no one cares or is paying attention.
So you harden your heart, and put it out of your mind. Then you finally get a letter and it breaks down that wall you've built around yourself, and you're reminded that there are people out there who have you in their thoughts. But you come to fear that initial effort, putting something of yourself down on paper or digits, because there are no guarantees. But you do it anyway because, as John Donne wrote, no man is an island; despite how much water you surround yourself with.
At least with any kind of consistency.
When you're isolated from your friends and family, you start to think that all e-mails and letters are being shot out into some void, never to see the light. You become very inward-looking and, in a way, very selfish. In your weaker moments, you play with the idea that no one cares or is paying attention.
So you harden your heart, and put it out of your mind. Then you finally get a letter and it breaks down that wall you've built around yourself, and you're reminded that there are people out there who have you in their thoughts. But you come to fear that initial effort, putting something of yourself down on paper or digits, because there are no guarantees. But you do it anyway because, as John Donne wrote, no man is an island; despite how much water you surround yourself with.