Rejected

I didn’t get into the program. Oh well. I suppose I can just apply again next year. Better make my application more competitive. And so on. No big deal, right?

But it’s all shit! Shit, dammit! No one cares if you to fail. What is there to all this but endless eating and gnawing? One’s heart is just a pulsating vessel. When people are constantly shouting, "Ay man, you got fitty cent for tha bus?" and harassing and following, the heart reacts. It gets inflamed. Many vascular insults combine to cause lifelong systemic injury and eventually a catastrophe.

One man thinks, "Boy, I am a part of the glue of the community, I just had a great spontaneous conversation with a gentleman out back. It’s amazing how you can connect to someone when talking face to face." Another man thinks, "This fool walks his dog at the exact same time every night and he about to get his ass robbed."

One woman thinks she has the appreciation and goodwill of her co-workers. Another clicks the "dismiss" button in an update box in an online social network.

People are like ships passing in the night? No, not at all. That sounds poetic, but we are more like passing fish. Just as rapacious but much more dumb and blind and diseased.