If you've ever moved to a new city or have been one of those people where you find it difficult to socialise, you find that meeting people is like extracting your own tooth without going to the dentist. It's draining and arduous.
In a big city where there are hundreds and thousands of head roaming on the street and every face seems to enmesh with each other and people become a number rather than individuals without a name; where individuality is subtlety denounced and the only way to truly fit in is through conformity. Is it not sad that as a collective bunch of the human race, we feel as though we cannot truly be ourselves, due to fear of being ostracized.
So what happens to those who truly stand out and do not fit in at all? whether they are different in appearance, in interest, has a odd way of communicating or just prepared to not conform to societies way of doing things. We cast them as "weird" and give them the run down with our eyes as to say they are not good enough for us to usher a word to them.
What would it feel like if the shoe was on the other foot? and the attack was on us personally. If we were the one that nobody wanted to be friends with and it was you that people gave the up and down look to.
It is rather difficult to imagine a world without friends where you would spend your birthday celebrating it on your own, going out to a cafe and entertaining yourself, and always hanging out with yourself.
In a world where human interaction is almost like learning a second language; it is almost extinct act. We don't make phone calls anymore but send texts and emails and use social networks to catch up with friends. This makes us more and more isolated to the real world.
We feel more and more isolated and children these days do not know how to interact in a sensible manner, and loneliness plagues the western world especially like leprosy.
Thus,there is one elemental truth, everybody has the same needs and despite race or gender and that truth is that fact that we all long to be loved and accepted and simply because someone looks like they are different does not mean that don't want friends, it's hard to try to make friends when one believes that they may be rejected. We were not designed to be on our own.
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