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As the tears crept into my eyes, I was transported back to a similar experience throughout my youth... You have the quality of a true writer... Just note, you are not alone. God is with you in everything that you do. There are more people like us in this world, you just have to take that first step sometimes and say hello. Think about it? If they speak or not, you are still alive and just walk on...

You may not be where you want to be but you may be where you need to be...
Blessings and Happy Holidays to you...

I look forward to reading more of your work...

This is nicely written... never be in a clique. The older you get, a clique is a death sentence to your own free mind. See everything, do everything, learn from everything, & be YOU. I've spoken to the most diverse people you could possibly imagine - and I come from the middle of nowhere and basically nothing. I can promise you, as someone who doesn't fit in and doesn't want to - you can end up giving demonstrations, being on TV, in magazines, and books. Not that - that's particularly what you'd want to do... but you'd be amazed at where life leads you if no matter how terrible your personal situation, you just say "to Hell with it" and wake up everyday and take every opportunity that presents itself to explore different areas, ways of thinking, geography, people from other places and other countries.

You don't need to ever fit in a certain crowd, in fact - that's the biggest detriment to your soul I could think of. If you just live life & continually explore every opportunity to improve and enlighten yourself... in 15 years you will have spoken to thousands of people from around the world in person, have dozens of long-time & hundreds of part-time acquantences, along with several good friends from your home area and around the country and world. You will have lived an interesting, sometimes rough, but ultimately rewarding life... and have thousands of memories to last a lifetime - no matter what situation you find yourself in at the time.

I had to die first before that was my attitude. I spent my "Seasons in the Abyss", Hell - if not a couple decades. But in the end, I'm not a mindless drone, part of the crowd - but I've seen, done, and experienced more than the 5,000 people around me put together. I lay there dying, then I went back to college in my 30's with no money, was at the top of my class & got loans and scholarships for 2 years, quit - after taking $250 out of my last student loan to start a business... and I've been supporting 6 people off that $250 for the last 5 years. A dozen times my life savings was $0 because I always put everything back into it, but when there was money at times - lets just say my 6 & 8 yr old have been through the scenic roads of over half the states and to over 100 nat'l & state parks (and what I'm driving now is pushing 200,000 miles & we're broke again for another 6 weeks or so until our good time of the year starts back up again).

Anyways, in the end you either become part of whatever particular crowd, group, community, society, whatever... or you wake up every morning and LIVE life as an absolutely free individual. Because you know deep down inside, that alternative of throwing yourself "all in" with whatever wisdom lacking group of people would be the suicide of your own soul. That's when you acquire your own preordained future. There's nothing sadder than to see an 80 year old who never learned anything or gained any type of wisdom or experience in the last 60 years. To Hell with any crowd, be you, be all YOU can be, take every opportunity to grow as a person - and be a strong, self-reliant, and FREE individual. Everything else will fall in place; by the time you're old and gray, you will calmly smile daydreaming about one of the thousands of great memories over the span of your life. Then you will wake up the next morning, exhilerated about what new memories you still have ahead!