Sunday, May 30, 2010

The Trouble with Lonely


Loneliness kills. If not, it would make one do things that could be considered as against the norms...

There was this guy in Arizona who would abduct children and hide them inside a basement. He would then look a them through a camera and record the movements of the kids. Once he would be bored by them, he will eliminate the subjects and dump them in the forest.

A woman who abhors to be left behind lured lovers and kept them. Once she could sense that the lover is drifting off from her, she will then kill him and place him inside the freezer in her garage. Once she will feel loneliness, she would open one freezer and get a cadaver and place it on her bed. She would embrace the dead until dawn and return it back to the freezer for future companionship...

Good thing we are not culturally designed like those aforementioned subjects. Filipinos are hard... but there are things that we also do in expressing our loneliness.

Sandra want someone to cling on. All her life, she experience being left alone. Her parents separated and left her at the care of her grandparents. She started feeling a sense of belonging when David got interested in her. They had sex and she realized that there's a greater need inside her to be filled. David is not enough. She must feel that someone needs her through Joshua, Kirk, Christian and even her teacher in Physics, Aldrich. She would feel a certain "wholeness" when she is having intercourse with the guys...

Reggie don't want to be alone. He could remember all the family conflicts he is into once he is by himself. He would then seek his friends who would drink their hurts away. When in the land of alcohol, he would feel different, even numbed with the emotional pain. He then develop the urge to drink every time he could sense that his inner self would like to confront his realities.

Marvin gambles. Whenever the reality that he is not as competent as the rest and not as endowed with wealth as the others, his insecurities escalate. That's the reason why he would try to escape from such thoughts and immerse himself in the intricate world of mendicancy. Here, he could also prove his worth... he needs to win! But after the gambling, he would then realize that another set of realities would pile up and that he needs to gamble more...

Yeah, we seldom kill others. But there are figurative killings with do with our loneliness. We end relationships, we destroy friendships, we sometimes focus more on our needs and not minding that there are others and we must co-exist.

Charity begins with oneself, we rationalize. It's true but when too many reasons are based on the self, that could be selfishness.

(Art: memecat.com)



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