people

People are people.

It's a funny word if you really look at it.

It looks like "Pee-oh-play".

People are funny to me. It seems like most people fall into some kind of category, and it seems like if you've met one person, you may as well have met millions of others alive right now who are very similar to them.

I just don't feel like I truly identify with anyone. The closest exceptions are my brothers and my parents.

Have you ever walked into a party filled with a lot of people you don't know and had that isolated, marooned feeling?

I seem to have that feeling, or some variation of it, most of the time when I'm interacting with the world at large.

I guess that's to be expected on some level. I mean, there's no one doing what I'm doing just in terms of the music. That seems to be an indication that I'm coming from somewhere that's not normal, or standard, something that IS off-the-beaten-path, or whatever.

For a long time, while still confusing and painful at times, it was mostly interesting and even entertaining to experience my difference in relation to others. Nowadays, it's bothersome.