airotia
All in all, humans are basically animals. We are territorial, and don't want anyone to take what's ours. We need food, and if we get desperate enough, we'll steal or even kill for it. We need sex, and most people would have it at the drop of a hat without even getting to know the other person if it didn't make us feel so cheap. Basically, humans are base and primal...
She was linked to me like a keychain. She was easy to slip on and off, hard to get on the first time, but once you got the hang of it, she stuck. She stuck, hung decorative things around her... and then one day, I realized how she was throwing everything off, so I took her off of the others and discarded her, and all other unnecessary rungs. She was my keychain, a superficial accessory -- and I didn't need her.
He was a sage of life, a sage of everything that he saw. With everything he spoke of, he spoke of it with this strange knowledge, as if he knew everything, everything in the universe. But the truth was, he knew nothing, knew little about people. Everything that he said he'd taken from some movie, some interaction between other people. He knew it was weird, knew it was even kind of WRONG, but he still acted like he knew everything. All hail the sage, the sage of nothing.
He drained her of everything she ever knew -- he took everything from her, draining and draining until nothing was left but the core of her being. When she was totally drained, hit rock-bottom, tapped-out, completely gone... Then she pulled herself together and rebuilt herself, forgetting that he'd drained her before. She became better, bigger, stronger than before... all because he drained her.
She wasn't the tallest in her class, but she got the highest, higher than anyone else. She was always high, always feeling tall, until her mother brought her down. And then she felt lower than the kid in her class who was 'legally a midget,' and all she could think about was being the tallest again...
He walked and walked and walked and walked until he couldn't walk anymore. He walked away from everything, from his life, from his hardships, from the joy... He just kept walking, alone, by himself, until he walked himself right off of a cliff. No one mourned him, because he'd walked away from them. But yet, he was running toward something as well -- infinity.