Even when you’re surrounded
by billions of friendly organisms, the only possibility of survival seems to be
through isolation. The daily
struggles of defense, sustenance, and maintenance are too precious to leave to
an unreliable source. At the end
of the day you are the only one that can be trusted with your own life.
But even though isolation
seems to be means of ensuring survival, the loneliness is killing you. The food is scarce but you can’t both
protect and provide. You’re
exhausted, but to shut an eye is to beckon death.
Why not join up with
another? For one, you’re too
stubborn to be anything but the alpha of a pack. But at the same time, you’re broken and weak and all that
responsibility would crush you.
You have an aversion to constant companionship, but is denying a helping
hand worth perpetual solitude?
Maybe soon you’ll meet
another Lone Wolf. Another
creature afraid of vulnerability, loathe to taking orders, yet in desperate
need of care. You cannot be the
only one out there, the only one to survive this long on only your raw
will. But surviving on willpower
alone will lead only to death.
When you meet your kindred
spirit, your fellow beast, things will be easier. You’ll get a reprise from the constant exhaustion and slip into
a dream or two-- finally welcoming rather than fighting sleep. You will no longer subsist on whatever
happens your way, but instead can take the time to enjoy life rather than
simply survive.
But you can’t hide; you must
show yourself in order for companionship to be possible.
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