Nov 12, 2008 04:22
As long as I have worked on the grave yard shift, over a number of different jobs there has always been one thing each job seems to bring out in me, a sense of lonelyness. Here I am totally by myself for about 9 hours of my 10 hours shift. There are people in the building and every so often I shut everything up for a few min to go chit chat, but I have to go seek people out to interact with folks while at work, excluding the people who call in because they misplaced thier 13 year old kid, or are claiming they got jumped by someone they do not know and stole all their money. When I worked at Shilo I had like 12 kids in the same building as me, but 1 they where all asleep and 2 I was suppose to be a role model for a good member of society, which means I could not be myself. When I worked at the flats I worked with people all the time, had a crew spent a lot of time with them, but again I could not really be myself I had to be careful about certain things around certain people < I know thats life always>
Either way my point is it seems that no matter how often we are around other people, unless we can be open and show our true selves we grow more and more lonely, or at least feel more and more isolated. Now this is just my view on things and I know that I am not alone or isolated, just sitting here in the semi dark totally alone brings back some of those feelings, all which will be gone at some point in time.