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All I wanted was a hug.

Mon Apr 21, 2008, 12:47 PM
  • Mood: Lonely
  • Playing: heartstrings
There was a man standing in the Quad today, full of anger. He was surrounded by a wide circle people enjoying the spectacle of him turning and pacing, waving a book around and ennumerating on the fears of man and god. People were laughing and jeering, matching hate for hate with tooth and nail.

I don't know why I did it, but I walked into the middle of the circle with the man and held out my arms to him. He would not embrace me. He would not look up.

I stood with the man who would not love. A girl came out of the crowd and gave me a hug, then a boy, then two men. The man would not look up. I turned to him again and again, but he would not stop for love.

Others invited me to jeer at him and close around, but that wasn't what I wanted. I had to let go their hands when they stopped holding them for love. A few others came to me there in the circle of hating people. The man would not look up, and I walked away sad.

I shed a tear for the man who would not love.

This really happened today. I am not writing a metaphoric perspective from the point of view of Jesus, I am not writing a piece of brief fiction. Today I found a man who would not stop for love. And it made me cry.

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~stardove3:iconstardove3: Apr 21, 2008, 12:51:49 PM
That makes me sad too. It sounds like everyone else is just as bad as the guy in the center. If they don't agree they can just choose not to listen.

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~Sephiroth617:iconSephiroth617: Apr 21, 2008, 1:07:21 PM
you are a far better person than i previously imagined
if i was there, i would stand there with you
:hug:

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~Cain532:iconCain532: Apr 21, 2008, 1:11:49 PM
You are a true saint Tony. It takes a lot to do what you did ^_^ I commend you for it and hope others can take after your own examples.

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*Thorvold:iconThorvold: Apr 21, 2008, 1:19:08 PM
Way to go Tony. This ia a sad commentary on America and where we're at as a nation and a people. Just plain SAD!!!

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~HeroAmongstThieves:iconHeroAmongstThieves: Apr 21, 2008, 1:22:27 PM
=( I love you!

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~Spiderwriter:iconSpiderwriter: Apr 21, 2008, 2:32:39 PM
Thanks for that. There wasn't enough love going around today.

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~Spiderwriter:iconSpiderwriter: Apr 21, 2008, 2:33:45 PM
I don't know how to feel about it, to be honest. I don't know if I should try again the next time I see him.

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~Spiderwriter:iconSpiderwriter: Apr 21, 2008, 2:34:37 PM
I felt very sad walking away; I felt like I had really failed to accomplish something for the first time today.

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~Spiderwriter:iconSpiderwriter: Apr 21, 2008, 2:35:22 PM
I know you would. I'm just sad that there were no people to stand there today.

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