People want to spend time together and I just couldn't pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. [..] Though I still don’t do that.

Laura Marling
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People want to spend time together and I just couldn't pretend that I wanted to do that. But now I do get it. I am often amused by what people do when they are alone. They don’t want to go anywhere, but they think that everyone wants to be with them.

They play the role of the hero and expect everyone to be on their side. That can be funny, but more often than not it is sad. A person without friends is like a ship without sails, it can still sail, but it will eventually drift about aimlessly in the wind.

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