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Even those people who claim they want nothing but to be left alone and “the hell with the world and everything” actually crave for attention. They want their denial acknowledged and their isolation shared. I know because I was one of those people-once but for an inexcusably long time. And then I grew up to be a human. It happened by trial and error; mostly error. I realized no one owed me anything. I realized that the one thing I shouldn’t expect was gratitude and that the one thing that was expected of me was to be as good a person as possible; and even if I happen to fail at it I must die trying. There isn’t a harsher and more merciless judge that the all-seeing eyes of your own conscience.