June 12 Daily Entry -- Alone

This morning they are not me. I am not my parents, my friends, or my spouse. They are elsewhere, and I do not need to be who they expect me to be.

I am now a neutral. I am not good or bad. I am not nice or mean. I am how I feel and what I do in this moment. I am free.

I move among strangers and interactions appear and disappear on the stage to be forgotten. Those strangers are on different stages. I am a guest on their stage, my own having gone dark.

It is freeing not to be a known character. Is it lonely?

No. I am alone. I am no one, but I can enter any number of stages if I want. Perhaps others will enter with me.

The world is not a stage. The world is millions of stages, and we move between them in the wings.