<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=490246" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Learning To Live Alone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">you lose them. and you do not really mind as they slowly<br>slip away. friends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">one says i am tactless, and the other complains <br>that i am subtle in chiding them, <br>insulting him without his knowing and only then<br>when he is caught in the midst of friends who laugh at him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">one says i am arrogant, and my superiority is not doing me<br>any good anyway. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">my mistake. i must, they say acknowledge the mistake<br>of just being myself.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">baloney. i do not give a damn now if they are like the stars<br>united to attack the sheen of my moon<br>at midnight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is enough. i am fed up. i sever what is severe.<br>i cut the umbilical cord that tries to <br>tell me what i should be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">baloney. i am different. i am purely myself now.<br>i walk alone and think about my own thoughts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i touch no one now and no one touches me.<br>i am an island. I am learning to be</div><div style="margin:10px 0">an island in front of you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=490246" data-title="Learning To Live Alone de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="you lose them. and you do not really mind as they slowly slip away. friends. one says i am tactless, and the other complains that i am subtle in chiding them, insulting him without his knowing and only then when he is caught in the midst of fri..."></div> </div> </div>

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