All By Myself.

One of the best things that I have heard from a teacher was from my choir instructor. He acknowledged that while observing us throughout the year that he could see it was difficult for some people to just get through the day. Everyone has there bad days, they happen, but what is so surprising to me is that when we are in the midst of having those bad days, we feel very alone. Walking around a school with close to 1500 kids in it, how is it possible to feel all by ourselves on those days? A comment like that should not be as surprising as it was to me, but when we are in that mindset ourselves it is hard to believe that anyone would notice us moping around.
One of the reasons for this is that we ourselves shut people out on those days. We plug our headphones in, listen to sad music, and refuse to be consoled. We blame the feeling of isolation on everyone else when, in reality, it is only the fault of ourselves. The only reason I can examine this phenomenon is because I am not particularly sad today, however I am as stressed at normal. The thing we forget about when we climb into our igloo by ourselves is that the people around you are not always ignoring you on purpose. In that igloo, yes we are surrounded by snowflakes, but the reason we may still feel cold is because we fail to realize that each snowflake has their own responsibility and worries, yet we are the ones having a pity party for ourselves.
I have heard this quote, "Sometimes you have to be your own hero."
Do you know how inaccurate this is? We by no means have to be our own hero, we just have to stop being our own villain. We are being the bad guy of our own story if we go through days where we shut people out. The main reason why we would feel alone in a high school setting is because we surround ourselves with the wrong people or we sing our mopey sad songs and retweet sad sayings. Which are both things we can blame ourselves for. So, in conclusion, if you start to isolate yourself, (because it is you're doing) don't. Just start laughing and go join a circle of friends, or just people for that matter, because everyone has problems. We are all in this together so you should not place your problems above everyone else's.
JSL