You Against The World Now

Two sad women got together for a late-night chat.

They both faced almost the same problem. Except they came from the two different sides of the story.

They couldn't help each other. They could only be there to help each other cry, and to listen to the other.

One had badly needed company tonight - just someone, anyone. She was trying hard not to sound desperate in her messages, but all she got was non-replies and few other replies from folks who seemed to have more meaningful things to do than to hang out with her.

She understood completely. She understood this was what loneliness meant. She thought she had known what loneliness was, but she never really knew how it felt like until it hit her like a thunderbolt. Just like tonight.

Many a time tonight, she had just wanted to give up. But again, she stopped herself when she thought of her mom and her dogs.

Is this how it's going to be everyday, she thought? What kind of a life is this?

She found a quiet place to hide and to seek solace in by herself. She still had no one tonight.

She was ready to finish up her last pint and head for home, when she found out the other woman friend needed company too.


One said gravely in the end:
In a bigger sense, you realize it's not so much a case of you versus him or anyone else.

It becomes a case of you against the whole world.

The world is such now. Nobody is the same as you thought, and hoped, them to be no more.

It becomes a matter of whether you change to fit into the world, or you stick to your own beliefs and feel out of this world.

If you don't change, you lose him now, and you might lose another later in your life, and then again.

Still, I am choosing to stick to my beliefs.