22nd Post: All alone?

As always we begin this post with an observation (for that is what this blog is about).
I was recently watching an interesting thing as I watched two people at a little get together. They each simply stood amongst the crowd of people looking lonely while everyone went on in their little world. Now this is nothing new, there are always people who are not as socially adept, or for one reason or another at that present moment don't quite know what to do with themselves in such a situation. No, the interesting thing to me was that I knew both of them, I knew that they would get along quite well together. So obviously, you are now wondering if I got up and made that connection....well I did not....on the sad side you should be disappointed in me for not doing the right thing (I am). On the other hand, you should be happy for what went through my mind at that time was to allow the social experiment to continue, I continued to watch because I knew that both of them knew each other and had spoken before. I wondered if they would make the connection at make two lonely people into one entertained pair. (No no don't think like that bad reader bad!)

Here is the interesting part, guess what they did not, they looked at each other as they looked around the room and they glazed right over each other. Interesting no? Now with the knowledge of hindsight I think I might have stumbled upon a human trait which I had previously identified but was unaware that it expanded to this scenario. That humans want to be part of something good/great. Moreover, that they are in most cases unable to see potential in situations. They rather become part of something that is good right now, with out having to do any work at all. People want all of the dessert without any of the vegetables, now this trait extends to this situation as the two people instead of seeing the great conversation they could build between themselves instead decided to look for a conversation where laughter was already blooming. Yet of final interest at least to me, neither person enjoyed the conversation they joined as the current momentum was either dying or a personal joke between those already present in the conversation.....

Now since we are already speaking about this topic of loneliness, I would like to expand it a little further and consider the idea that we all have traits for which we believe that we are alone in having. We are the only one who do not understand art, we are the only ones who hate kids etc. etc. The funny thing is that nothing is new under the sun. That we are never alone in our feelings, the question is really where are these people? In most cases they are all around us, however, if it is something against the norm/socially acceptable model we all tend to keep it on the low. (PS I HATE KIDS) We are all together, and in almost all cases these things that we keep secret would make very little difference with those that truly matter to us. (A So What moment)

Signed,
A Slave of Two Masters

PS Please pardon the lack of recent posts, I have been under irregular stress from outside forces.