home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!vax5.cit.cornell.edu!ucw
- From: ucw@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: The cynic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.013356.16082@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 01:33:56 EST
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Cornell University
- Lines: 17
-
- Life is boring. Its dullness cuts to the bone. It leaves no taste in my mouth,
- no smile on my face. It flows from day to day without changing. I feel no pain
- or pleasure. I see only a constant shade of grey. All these philosphical
- rhetorical thoughts make me sick. Words mean nothing to me anymore. Is it
- possible to be passionately bored? Sad movies no longer jerk the tears from my
- eyes. The bright rays of the rising sun no longer soothe my face with their
- reassuring warmth. Everything is a task, nothing is new. The music that once
- inspired me only mocks me now, its beat has become redundant. The VCR clock has
- stopped ticking, and I see nothing but reruns every day. I can back no cause
- and feel no allegiance. Political issues are just two-sided jokes told by red
- in the face egotistical bastards who are only interested in hearing their own
- voices. So I too sit here alone and selfishly listen to my own voice, shutting
- all others out. There is a certain safety in apathy, a certain comfort in being
- alone. I am a coward, and until I decide to reach out and become a player in
- this strange game surrounding me and take the risk of losing, I will never win.
- I will walk alone in life and wallow in cynicism and self pity, and the warmth
- of the sun will never reach within me.
-