A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words As Seen by a Young Girl

in hive-161155 •  5 months ago  (edited)

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I can't stop looking at him. How is he alive? Just barely I think. Is he a human being? Why does he look so reptilian? He looks like an animal. Maybe he lives on the street. Spends a lot of time in the bar. If he has family they've given up on him. Probably don't even know where he is, if he is dead or alive.

What kind of life is this? How did he get like this? Surely he must have been someone's little boy then a teenage youth and then a young man... surely he must have earned a living somehow. Maybe he was in the military and served active duty in a war. That changes a person. To have to fight and kill others. There can be nightmares and flashbacks and a door slamming sounds like a gun shot.

He doesn't look like a criminal. Or someone having been in prison. He just looks beat up. Smoking used to be "cool." Maybe he thinks it's still cool. Makes him look cool. Or maybe be he just has a nicotine addiction.

I really do not want to sit down and talk with him. Whatever he says will be all about him. Sorry not particularly interested. Wish you well but I don't want to get involved.

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I hear you. For sure if the starts talking it's all about him.