You Are Not Alone

mixed vegetables and it all melted in my mouth with each bite. I became aware that all eyes were on me and I could hear whispers as they looked my way. I do not know if it was the fact that I was a stranger in town or that I was a woman traveling alone, either way the unwanted attention made me uncomfortable. With this I decided to skip the apple pie and get back on the road, since I was not far from my destination. The town was very small, and I soon found myself winding down farm lined…

Declare; Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone” by Mary Morris mention “travel shaped by a traveler’s gender” as a man vs as a female alone. On Page 10 explained it was not easy for the woman to travel alone. “If you are attacked while walking down this road, you have no place to go. For the first time, I walked that quarter mile at night alone. Every shadow, every sound, made me turn. I behaved like a hunted thing. It is not easy to move through the world alone, and it is never easy for…

poem is about how people would want to go on the Titanic and go through the same death that the people on the Titanic went through. By dying with a lot of people rather than dying alone, which is what most people do. I believe that the theme of the poem by David R. Slavitt is “It’s better to die together than to die alone.” By paraphrases the poem, it helped by giving further understanding to learn about the universal truth about the poem Titanic. For example, “To…

Regardless of where you go, traveling solo is intimidating at first. It 's a surreal feeling knowing that you 're going to eventually be somewhere completely by yourself. The internet is filled with a million articles on why you should travel solo. They talk about how it 's therapeutic and how you really find yourself. Many claim it to be a right of passage and boast about how you will become super comfortable being with yourself. While these articles hold a lot of truth, they often give people…

You lean back, stretching your arms out wide before settling them down behind your head and neck. With one last sigh, you relax into the crackling of the fire and cool breeze sweeping past, looking around, gazing upon the sullen trees with branches draping about. This is it, you think. Alone, free, nothing but my thoughts and the beauty around me here. Until you hear a snap. One of the swaying branches you had just been admiring alerts you back into awakeness. You slide back until you’re fully…

shown and proved that regularly being alone can lead to depression or other psychological disorders. The different definitions of the word “alone” help determine how it is being used or the feelings behind it. The two sides or aspects to the word have both negative and positive meanings. Depending on who is describing it, the explanations can vary. Defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus “alone” is an adjective meaning “1) without…

Before you can understand what Jean-Paul Sartre refers to as despair, anguish and abandonment, moreover condemned to be free, you should first understand the meaning of subjectivity. Furthermore, you need to understand that individual feelings (sadness, happiness, etc.) are not the objective in Sartre’s reason. Hence, you seem aware of the concept of existence precedes essence, however you abandon the notion of taking responsibilities of your choices by choosing ignorance; in turn, you…

Laying down at night staring into the night sky over your head have you ever felt small by the vastness of the empty void above? Ever felt like you were just a small speck of dust in the endless expanse of the universe? Have you ever asked yourself, “Does life exist elsewhere in the universe”? Life forms as we know it exist only on Earth. and recent discoveries show that there used to be forms of bacteria on Mars, but these are long deceased. People's belief in “aliens” have been around for…

Have you ever felt alone? Melissa Joan Hart, the actor who played Grace Wesley in God’s Not Dead 2, stated in the movie, “I would rather stand with God and be judged by the world than stand with the world and be judged by God” (“God’s Not Dead”). If you have faith in something, even if it cannot be see, you will never be alone. Religions and higher beings of all kinds can help almost anyone have courage and reliance again. Because of personal experience, I believe in the untouchable. Whenever I…

Being alone is a commodity desirable yet spontaneous. The secret that life holds can only be discovered through solitary and anguish. Many may think that being alone is one of the worst things, but in reality it is when you realize the true intentionality life has for you. In the book Siddhartha written by Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha is a prevailing character who wanders different paths to seek the true significance of what life truly holds for him. From the start Siddhartha had his trail laid out…