the unfathomable misery of being

When I venture out into the world, I am like a scuba diver communing with tropical reef inhabitants as I look around at all these strange creatures going about their weird little lives, seemingly oblivious to my existence as I make my way through the dense atmosphere of their environment, which envelopes me so completely that I can feel it pressing relentlessly against my body, greedily searching for any chink in my armor through which it can enter and make me one of its blindly impulsive, Soylent Green consuming fish, assimilating me into the ignorant, rank and file masses, shuffling off each day to glorify their own oppressors.