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[tom_hanniger]

I’ve got this friend who says that the human condition, the human nature, being human, is to be cold and alone. Like someone lost in the woods. Safe to say he’s a ‘glass half empty’ kind of guy. Still, I can’t help but think that he has a point sometimes.

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[ Voice. ]

[smokeandmortar]

[At first, he doesn't really say much. He's gathering his thoughts and, strangely, it's one of those few occasions where he sounds like he's actually gotten his head together. Imagine that.]

Wouldn't call it human nature, but humankind's fate to be cold and alone. That's how you're born, that's how you'll die. There's no leverage for man. No excuses. No great messiah to scapegoat us all out of our own fuckups this round. Your fate will always lead to the same path at the end.

Man is an island.

Re: [ Voice. ]

[tom_hanniger]

[He takes a moment to reply, letting Alex's words roll around in his head for a moment.]

So what am I supposed to do then?

[ Voice. ]

[smokeandmortar]

You're askin' me what you should do? I've already done enough fuckin' up my own life as it is.

[A quiet, something-of-a snort.]

In all seriousness, though, there's a line in Frost's poem, Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by. Up to you whether it makes the fuckin' difference. It's actually a sarcastic poem mockin' idealists who assign significance to every decision they make. Frost was a bit of a misanthropist himself.

Which goes without sayin', if you got any skeletons in the closet, best to keep 'em there and walk away. Weigh out too much in the decisions you make, it's gonna take you under.

...sorry. I'm talkin' too much.

[ Voice. ]

[tom_hanniger]

No.. It's just complicated. That's all.

[rebornmother]

No one should be left alone, "human nature" or not.

[tom_hanniger]

But that is human nature.

[rebornmother]

I don't believe that.

[tom_hanniger]

So you think everything is fine so long as you're not alone, is that right?

[v]

[maneurism]

Best cure f'r a bad day is booze.

In case ya hadn't thought of it yet.

[v]

[tom_hanniger]

Do I know you?

[v]

[maneurism]

Do y' need to? No. Shouldja? Yeah. Prob'ly. Not that we've ever met or that you've ever heard of me.

Although, I'm not lyin' about the booze thing.

[v] It took him a second to decode the accent.

[tom_hanniger]

...

I dont doubt it.

[asilvertongue]

Makes sense to me. Although I'd elaborate and say that it's human nature to betray each other and go corrupt. There's nothing truly good in the world, you know. Being alone would fix some of that, at least.

[tom_hanniger]

There's nothing to betray in isolation but yourself. I’m living proof of that.

[asilvertongue]

My point exactly.

[tom_hanniger]

So you think he's right then? What he said is right?

[goodlucksoldier]

You're still listening to him?

[tom_hanniger]

No, I can't hear him anymore.

[goodlucksoldier]

You don't have to.

[tom_hanniger]

I've just been thinking a lot lately. That's all.