People inside my head - 6

"Sage it's 5am and I really need to ask you something."

"Go on"

"Is it possible to feel completely alone when you're surrounded by the people you love? Like shifting from a moment of feeling so grateful that heart swells up with love to a moment of utter silence echoing against your chest which suddenly feels hollow? How is it that when you're not around them all you can think of is being with them and when you're with them, it's too important and you just panic about every second, every word that you say and every action you do? How do you survive in the maddening contradiction Sage? How? "

"I think humans live in contradiction everyday, yet do not understand how to live with it.