Friends

I once thought I didn't need friends, that I could face the world by myself, so very alone. But now I know how foolish I was. Companions to share the collective hallucination of life make the journey so much easier. Life is but the summation of everyone's perceptions, an amalgamation of the windows people see through. Without someone to compare views with, everything loses a dimension, loses the steroscopy that makes it real. So find a gang, a group, a family to bounce your mind off of, unslant your reality together. Trial after trial I have been through, burned for life in some (most) by facing the jury of fate alone. I survived, though I barely held on by a string, but my suffering would have been immeasurably easier had I merely asked for help.

It was a friend that taught me this, an asocial mentor to dealing with society. Scary that I could not learn the lessons by myself, but that's just one more example of what I'm saying.