Everybody wants you sweetheart
Everybody got a dream of glory
Las Vegas got a pin – up girl
They got her armed
As they buy and sell her
Rivers of milk are running dry
Can’t you hear the dolphins crying
What’ll we do when our babies scream
Fill their mouths with some acid rain — from Mary by Tori Amos

People need people.

Over the past years, I have seen many a TV and radio talkshow, books, short articles, trying to help people who are crushed by the most basic need to associate with other people. This help has focused on the idea that one’s worth is not tied with other people, that one’s happiness truly is one’s own. That is well and fine. Too many times people need people because they are not comfortable in their own skin by themselves. Too many times, they reach out when the time is not right. They become crutches for each other.

How could we expect to carry others if we cannot carry our selves?

At the end of the day, when one has grown enough to be comfortable with himself, he feels lonely. Where now, is all the self-reassuring advice from gurus left and right, telling us that it is okay to be by ourselves? At one point or another, we need to reach out. It does not matter if one is a social butterfly or a recluse, there are reasons and fears behind our individual actions.

No one, at least no one who is in touch with his humanity, wants to be completely alone.

Good night, everyone.