I’ve literally gone months without speaking a single word, weeks without seeing a single person, weeks without sleep, weeks without food, days without water, and years without understanding my place in even the smallest communities. You can blame it on my OCD (which is a fear-based, anxiety disorder), my Asperger’s Syndome, or circumstantial conditions, but I’ve generally gone well out of my way to choose isolation over anything else.

Recently, I’ve decided to change all of that, and, while it’s difficult, it is an improvement.

I have always struggled with balancing relationships, though. Instead of being a bad friend by thinking only of myself, I only focus on other people and what I can do for them.

P.S. ‘Isolation’ is also a great song, by John Lennon…