Once upon a time I could live with my own company. I did not care about isolation and found being on my own preferable to being in the company of others.
Those days changed when I first made friends. As I learned to trust and rely on others. Too much it seems because now the skills that carried me through the first few years of my school life are all but gone. I no longer cope well when left alone.
To have friends, people to talk to, have fun with, distractions from the mundane aspects of life and, most importantly, kind words to help when dark moods take me, are things I can no longer envision myself without.
These last few days I've be