You are not alone
You are surrounded by suffering
Never forget that you are not alone. Your suffering is a burden shared by so many others. So, so many others. Hundreds of other people suffer just like you. Thousands suffer in other ways. Hundreds of thousands. Millions, even. Hundreds of millions, perhaps billions. Imagine it. Imagine all of that suffering.
Do you feel better now? No?
You are not alone.
Hordes of the disillusioned, haunted, discouraged, hungry for relief, desperate for help, raging in Hell. There you are, among the dregs, the desultory, the dying. Everywhere you look, a thousand shattered souls reflect your pain, just as you reflect theirs, distorted and adapted to each individual. You are each an eddy in a river of pain, rivulets of despair flowing toward an ocean of torment.
You are not alone; you are surrounded.
And you are being watched. Your suffering is witnessed. It is observed. It is monitored for signs of hazard. Mysterious forces witness it. Hidden forces observe and report. Power monitors you, ready to contain you. You can’t escape its gaze. Always watching, waiting, eager to report you. They are with you. You are with them. They have no affection for you. You will never speak. You don’t matter. But they are with you.
You are not alone, you are isolated. All of us. Isolated, separated by walls of hardship, but those same walls keep us as neighbors. We can see you, can’t reach you. And if we can reach you, we can’t help. And if we can help, would you even be grateful? Do you have any humanity left? Do I? Do any of us?
How can we? We’ve been swallowed by a leviathan of our worst selves. An abomination, constructed from a macabre jumble of fleshy anti-humanity, digests us in digital juices. All of our humanity dissolves into a nutrient slurry to be absorbed by a digital intestine. This creature can never satisfy its hunger. This creature will never stop eating. This creature made of us.
No, you are not alone.
You are drowning in humanity.
Originally published on PickleGlitch.com
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