Strangers

Open up your heart and show me what's inside. Display your greatest fears and most horrific desires. Allow me to see the real you - the one that you hide from others. Proudly flaunt yourself untouched and unaltered and allow me to savor in its purity.

All because we can't see each other, all because we don't know each other. All because we know nothing of each others' pasts, presents, or futures. Simply because of the fact that we just met we can do this. Simply because of the fact that we don't know if we will meet again. For these reasons and many more we proudly show off who we are to complete strangers. To people that very well could make our pain a thousand time worse.

Yet we continue to talk to them, because they are there. They exist, but only indirectly affect our lives. We do not have to negotiate or participate in anything with them involuntarily, so thus we give ourselves unto them. And we do so without even thinking twice. In the blink of an eye our darkest desires are revealed and the true form of who we are is unveiled.

Why do we do it? Because we know if they are horrified or stupefied that we can simply move on. It only takes the click of a button or a few simple keystrokes to end it all. When you are talking to someone like this, your world exists on the face of a penny. Your reality becomes so condensed that you are easily able to package and ship it to any recipient. That's why we are different from you. That's why you won't ever understand us, and most of us wouldn't have it any other way.