Does everyone feel alone?

People pass me by, saying hello with forced smiles and tight lips. People force out small talk, trying to avoid anything of importance. I can’t stand to be around these people. I can’t stand to say hello. Interactions like these leave me drained, tired, bored. Life bores me. There is nothing wrong in my house, save for the occasional screaming match. There are no people that put me down. This is why I’m vulnerable. If I let down my walls the enemy fires. I get hurt. I don’t have reason to be upset. No reason, unless you count that no one understands my thoughts at all. No one in my mindset in the world. I think to deeply, yet not deep enough. Smart for my grade, too incompetent for the next. A bore to my friends and a nuisance to anyone older. I am an in between, a gap in the system, so I am lumped with fools who force smiles and avoid anything of importance. And for this, I am exhausted.