Sitting in the Shower with Bottles of Cider

Sitting in the Shower, With Bottles of Cider

"Island"

Sometimes... I like to plug up the drain and let the hot shower water pool so I can lay down in it like a bath, while taking a shower. There's really nothing else like it, but it's a big, massive waste of water...

I'd suppose this is the part where I should care, right?

I don't, and I'll tell you why.

Because I'm a motherbuckin' ISLAND. I float in this stuff and don't even care.

Lemme' explain. Know that old saying: No stallion is an island of himself? I call that a misunderstood lie. Sure, no stallion is an island upon himself initially, and maybe not completely... but that's kind of what happens when somepony says something that sounds wise but really, actually is just a blanket statement for describing the average.

But what if somepony isn't average? What if they're different?

I'll say this... I'm an island of myself. I don't rely on anypony else for my food, water, moral support, love, happiness, or anything else. Everything that I am, is my own doing. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I support myself in every way. When things get down and dirty, I have to deal with it without a shoulder to cry on, without anyone I can actually talk to. There's nopony at home waiting for me when I get there, and there's no Celestia that I can pray to.

Some ponies are just meant to be examples. Some ponies are just meant for other ponies to learn from, then be discarded by life as their own life comes to an end. It's been called an empty existence by many.

But in emptiness comes revelation, and contention.

And I am content.

If somepony can learn how not to have lived, in the event that I fail my own goals, then at least it all meant something.

I don't need anypony else. I don't need them to live or survive.

But it'd sure be nice.