The Fight

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Loneliness was hovering like a dense fog over Ninny's life. He looked here. He looked there. He looked there again. Yet no matter where our Ninny looked, all he found was meaningless forays in the sheets with drunken persons, and Ninny was sinking deeper into a drunken era of mental absence. Following a holiday season with family and the dropping of the cigarette habit, Ninny found himself ringing in the New Year with Drella and friends. It was a low key evening to be sure, though many libations were imbibed. Ninny, once again, found himself in a whirl of sheets and body parts. This time however, the person stuck around.

Yes, our Ninny was whisked into a relationship with a kind man. Weekends became events, and sleeping alone was rare. The loneliness had finally begun to recede. Sadly the depression did not. It seems the other end of the spectrum was not much more bearable than the first, and Ninny was soon overwhelmed by the relationship. Resentment rooted, grew, and festered. Soon Ninny was disturbed and still depressed. So a mere few months from the start, Ninny separated himself from the other, and was back to being alone.

And alone he truly was. Miss Drella's work schedule did not coincide with Ninny's. Ninny was consumed by staring blankly at flashing images and mindless drolling. Drinking heavily and sleeping often. Exhaustion, emptiness, and sorrow were looming on the periphery of Ninny's vision. As the darkness crept closer so did Spring. Ninny took a quick trip back to LA to see the friends and family he missed so dearly. The sun and warmth of his loved ones, coupled with a little sun and warmth from the weather, brought Ninny a little ways from the darkness again. Once home Ninny began changes.

The TV was abandoned, the gym reinstated, and bay area friends reacquainted. In short. Ninny was back.

And now you find him here. A new perspective ever developing with excitement for the near and distant future riding astride it. May Ninny's new journey be long and ever challenging, bringing out new views, creations, and friends.