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I had the most enlightening dream last night. They were all there. People I know, distantly. People I knew. People I can't say I do anymore. They were all from a former life I dare not mutter of anymore...for there are far more pleasant things to be remembered. They were eating, drinking and being merry. Their hair was done just so, in some sort of personality stating forbidden. Their bodies were peppered with tattoos that meant nothing; but they reveled in their perceived diversity and independence. I was holding a camera while I walked around this house they all dwelled in. They posed instinctively, even when I merely looked at them through the lens, not taking a picture. They needed me to see them smiling. They needed me to see how much fun they were having - as if they needed to state to the world who they wanted to be seen as. They continued to pose and casually insist they were the most wonderful, fun people on the planet.


Then I found myself standing outside this house, looking in their windows as they sat with one another and continued to show who ever walked by how beautiful and great they were. I felt a twinge of loneliness, wishing that I could be in there with them. That, perhaps, I was missing out on all the fun that was being had.
My eyes finally adjusted, and I saw what it was I was really looking at. It was as if a veil had been lifted from my eyes. They were old, dressed in the clothing of teenagers. They looked tired and worn out. Grown adults, hording around what turned out to be lunch tables like those you find in a school cafeteria. As I looked at them, I looked at my own environment. I was outside. There were no walls confining me. There was an open, blue sky above me. I wasn't on display behind the unforgiving glass. I had no one to pose for. I was the one who was beautiful, happy and free.