Prologue

I am an endangered species in a country of religious fanatics and hard-headed fools, of two-faced 'friends of convenience' and those who barely know me.

It hasn't taken me long to realize that I am considered a misfit in my own society. I don't follow the norm, I don't believe in the norm. I masquerade constantly to appease the only higher power capable of returning me to a state of despair. I am treated as a dependable person when the time is right and discarded and ignored when I'm not required. I step on toes with disregard and rebel against the masses behind a dutiful smile.

It's so hard at times, to keep it all together when so much threatens to tear me asunder. But as I sit here on this fence-this divider of chaos and sanity, the definition of my own identity- I realize that I would not want to be anywhere else in the world.

Thursday, October 9, 2008