Written by Danika Salvoro

Remember the weirdo facing the computer screen in the library? He entertains himself with funny videos on Youtube because he got no one to entertain him; no one would be there for him for they all see him as a coward weirdo. That doesn’t get better but merely a nerd. You laugh at him because he is seemed mad and crazy, stupid perhaps?! You tease him because of his flaws and his state of suffering mental disorder. You abusively use him for fun as if the person doesn’t feel pain and self-pity at all.

Remember the girl who didn’t get to response in class? She was asked by your teacher regarding about something from the lesson. Yet she didn’t get to answer and just stood there in silence without a single reply. “Oh, dear, even her own opinion she cannot express.” And so you and the whole class look down to her underestimating her confidence and the capability of analysis.

                Remember the person who draws weird things in his sketch pad? Not minding anyone at all, just focusing on what his sketches as if his whole world is just between him in the tip of his pencil. He may be silent in sketching, but you never know what he’s carrying, for all you see is a person doing the things that he is fond and so you assume that he is okay.

                Remember the girl who walks alone, eats alone, does things on her own?! You pass by her every single day with her head hang low, assuming that she is fine and independent and that she is okay to be alone. Do you really think we’re really tough, loner, who walks along the corridor carrying all the stares that people would give? Do you think these people are tough enough to face loneliness? If you’re going to think about it, they only become one of it not because they love the state of being all by themselves but because they are already used to it. Because of the days that were spent alone, they found their own presence as the most comfortable company, because… you were never there!

You know what, being in one with this people made me realize that no man is an island. We can’t be alone! And it is not just us who are hurting, but also the person who we didn’t get to notice that was there the whole time. There I know that we are not facing the world alone. Through my tears… through my tears, I get to see Jesus.

I was blinded by the idea that no one wants to be with me.  But actually, someone’s greater than the rest was guarding me the whole time, that’s why darling, don’t ever think that you are alone or set aside by the world, for you have our God. This testimony is for you.