On the Other Side

I'm really tired of everyone I know (minus a select few of course)

And it's so true,

At first, when you start drinking, all of a sudden, this alleged

"EVERYONE"

.....they don't seem so bad after all.

You drink a little more

and then all you want to do 

is lock yourself up in your room and throw away the key.

You begin to think, "Out of everyone I know, who actually gives a shit about me?"

Then you meet someone - they come along: creeping up on you and you get the wind knocked out of you because this person, they make you see everything completely different. Or to clarify, perhaps you saw the world this way before, but it gradually faded away and this person made you realize what you once did before yet again. You develop this new optimistic light about people that maybe(?)..... there's hope for us yet.

You realize that indeed, your mind is really as blind as a branch on a tree where the tree is everyone and the branches are just stems that forget that they're actually a part of the tree, part of the collective everyone.

So you reassess: maybe it's that the everyone you know just isn't right for you. After all, it takes thousands of trees to make a forest. Maybe you just haven't found your trunk from which to branch out on yet. 

And until I find that tree, I know there a few people waiting for me on the other side.