"not that i disagree with you..."

a few weeks ago my best friend flew in from his home in Colorado to spend a few weeks back in the hellish bordom we grew up in. At the time i was in the middle of an argument on a blog with someone who's views are quite different from mine. the argument got quite nuckleheaded. So my friend and i were driving to a movie theater to escape our hometown's mind-numbing poison and i started in on how this argument was bothering me.

"Am I insane?" i asked.

"Nah." he says.

i explained that i've never felt so alone as i do because of this argument. My views, ideas and suspicions of the world we're so far out there and different from what the other gentlemen i was arguing with that it seemed to infuriate him, or at least seem laughable. The struggle to articulate the joke we are living to a person who's not even in the same ball park much less same seating section i am in made me feel insane.

never have i felt so alone. when for even a second i felt my perseption was nothing like anyone elses.

My best friend says "Yeah, you are pretty weird."


thanks tim.

-a