Deep within the centre of a crowd, It feel alone. There is no sense of attachment, of belonging. I am engulfed in a sphere containing only myself. I float around my fellow earthlings, observing, even understanding, but not relating to the activities they indulge in. I struggle to understand who these people are, how they all know each other so well, how they have so much to talk about.
I find myself asking if I'm on the wrong planet, what it would take for me to become one of them. But then these people come along from time to time whom I connect with. It's then that I realise that there's more of us, but we just tend to conceal ourselves in a world within a world.
I've been living inside my sphere for a long time, short enough to retain still the basic social survival skills but long enough to forget that sometimes there are emotions involved. I could tell when in retrospect I noticed myself doing the bare minimum of chit chat,
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