Alone

This living alone thing really stinks! Ya, I know that there are a lot of things a guy can do alone that are fun and okay to do. Like fly fishing for trout, hiking a fourteener, going to and from work, watching a ball game, and..... showering. It's not the going to and coming home from work, it's the empty house once a guy gets home. That really sucks. So, should I join "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club?" (Beatles).

But, who really wants to belong to a lonely hearts club? Who wants to be lonely? Belonging to a club of lonely people would be worse than being lonely by myself. For those of you who have never been lonely, it is accompanied by a deep ache and longing. There is a void that is not being filled. Call it solitude if you like, but it's not the same. Solitude is a contented aloneness.

So goes life, day after day, week after week. To me it doesn't make a bit of sense. But as Walter Cronkite used to say, "that's the way it is."