“To be noticed all you have to do is standout from the crowd.” “When the crowd follows you, their noise can misguide you. When you follow the crowd, their direction may mislead you.” “Whenever you enter the crowds, keep your own personality, keep your own behaviour, keep your own mind; stay as yourself!”
2. The crowd.
Ignoring the irrelevant questions in my head, questions which I had no answer to and which I didn't Even want to know the answers to, I walked to the front of the class to meet my best friend. She was the class representative of my class hence she was important, and I was not I was only a mere tag along.
My lecturer before leaving gave her a lot of handouts to sell to the class and right about now she was surrounded by my classmates while I was ignored.
"Sofia, are you not coming down with me?" I asked giving way for a girl and her group of friends to pass. My voice was drowned in the crowd, unheard. In the crowd I wasn't noticed because I wasn't who the world needed and even when I was noticed I yearned for isolation. Solitude was my drug and I was addicted for life.
Sofia drowned in the crowd, so many shouting and impatient voices filled the air making a sound that pained my chest. I stood by the corner of the class waiting for her, I stood alone. I kept waiting but she never looked back to acknowledge my presence. In the crowd I became lost, that's why I never followed the crowd. She was lost, she followed the crowd.
Even when solitude is the only thing I desire I still became sad when I got it. I wanted isolation with people, but how is that possible. Can you eat your cake and have it?.
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