We come into this world, alone. Naked. Innocent. Empty. Alone. While people gather around and celebrate our birth. There is no one who truly shares that experience with us. So we are left to endure it, alone.
As we grow up, and older, and learn to communicate (whatever the means), we quickly learn there are some things, some thoughts, never to be expressed. Intrusive thoughts, evil thoughts. Even bold bright and cheery thoughts, wants and desires are sometimes forbidden and not allowed to be expressed.
So we hide. To our parents, friends, spouses, even counselors. The true ‘us’ is known only to ourselves. Leaving us, once again, alone.
We are each small ships floating through existence with our outer shell the only thing known to others. Leaving our true selves marooned in our own little world in the galactic flash of our life.
Alone extends beyond the individual. In space and time we are all alone. Even if/when another civilizations are found and contacted, we will all still be alone. Together, in our commonality, we will still, and always be, alone with our differences, incompatibilities…and secrets.
In our final hours, either individually, or as a species, we will all die alone. Gathered around, as with out birth, may be people morning our passing, and celebrating our lives, but we will still die alone. Alone with our personal thoughts and experiences of our secret lives that make each of us uniquely alone.
We always have been and ever shall be, alone.