People who need people

I once watched ‘Funny Girl’ and Barbra Streisand sang about people who need people being the luckiest people. I never understood what she meant by those words. Of late I’ve been thinking about them. I realized that i was one of those who need people but will neither admit of that nor will I do anything about it even if I were aware since I’m set in my ways and procrastinate too much and won’t do a damn thing. Sometimes I rationalize it away with ‘what’s the point?’ but I suspect that I do that out of spite. Life throws me curved balls but what the heck I’ll throw in a few more for the heck of it. I used to resent myself for wanting to have someone at the other end of the line. Somehow I worked it out such that I was imposing on them.
Today was different. I felt this void and wanted suddenly to need people and perhaps to have people need me.

~ by mavj on August 22, 2004.