—I CAN SEE THAT YOU ARE LONESOME JUST LIKE ME

 

Go Out for a Walk 

Find meaning. 

Distinguish melancholy 

from sadness. 

Go out for a walk. 

It doesn’t have to be a 

romantic walk in the park, 

spring at its most 

spectacular moment, 

flowers and smells 

and outstanding poetical 

imagery smoothly transferring

you into another world. 

It doesn’t have to be a walk 

during which you’ll have 

multiple life epiphanies 

and discover meanings 

no other brain ever managed 

to encounter. 

Do not be afraid of spending 

quality time by yourself. 

Find meaning 

or don’t find meaning 

but 'steal' some time and 

give it freely and exclusively 

to your own self. 

Opt for privacy and solitude. 

That doesn’t make you antisocial 

or cause you to reject the 

rest of the world. 

But you need to breathe. 

And you need to be.

 

--Albert Camus