I'd heard about people going for holidays alone. (Holiday meaning vacation). I decided to try it but got incredibly bored and lonely, I went to Amsterdam and to top it off I got very stoned and paranoid. It was no where near as traumatic as events other people are describing on here though.
There's two different kinds of places I go to where I feel most alone but they're polar opposites to one another. One is the moors near me, it's just vast open flat lands of grass with some reservoirs around. But when you are out there you feel obliged to engage in convo with whoever you see. Just because you have this thing in common, that you both decided to go up on the moors today.
The other place is the city, where most people are in a rush, working, don't speak English, already with their friends in a group that you're not a part of, driving past at high speed. When you see someone in a city there's more of an obligation to not talk to them, just incase they're busy. Plus in a city you want to avoid drunk or drugged people who want to talk to you about things you find boring/insignificant but they find absolutely amazing because they're drunk or on drugs. Same goes for religious people or people who want to talk to you to try and get money off you.
There's two different kinds of places I go to where I feel most alone but they're polar opposites to one another. One is the moors near me, it's just vast open flat lands of grass with some reservoirs around. But when you are out there you feel obliged to engage in convo with whoever you see. Just because you have this thing in common, that you both decided to go up on the moors today.
The other place is the city, where most people are in a rush, working, don't speak English, already with their friends in a group that you're not a part of, driving past at high speed. When you see someone in a city there's more of an obligation to not talk to them, just incase they're busy. Plus in a city you want to avoid drunk or drugged people who want to talk to you about things you find boring/insignificant but they find absolutely amazing because they're drunk or on drugs. Same goes for religious people or people who want to talk to you to try and get money off you.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
