Afternoon Stroll

As I was standing alone outside our office today; waiting; I try figuring out where will be my destination for our lunch break. I was alone; I try calling my friends, but they are busy or they just don't want me around. Since I was alone, I try wandering the streets under the scalding heat of the sun. I thought that my sojourn to nowhere will be ineffective, but I was wrong. And then I found my self standing outside a bookstore here in our place. This bookstore is my sanctuary; whenever I am alone and weary, I go here and indulged the serenity and the comforting feeling that the place provide to a bibliophile like me.

As I go inside of the bookstore, there is this one book that caught my attention. The book is entitled "Midnight Monologue" Written by Charrissa Ong Ty. And when I open the book, I saw this certain page and I was captivated of the text that I have read.

These lines reflects the situation that I am in right now. I feel unloved by the people around me; I feel the back-stab of my own office mates, I feel neglected and out of place by the workplace that I am in. I feel degraded by those people who look at me with their insulting eyes.

I am not alone, because Loneliness is always with me.

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