Living In A Burrow

A few of you are drawn to a vague fantasy of dwelling quite alone in a burrow surely. The appeal of the burrow is 'to be away from' isn't it? The appeal of the burrow is to be self-contained, reliant on no help. You who are drawn to the burrow, importantly, are by nature aloof surely - never the party clown you are instead the don or the damaged. I am guessing that mainly you are drawn to the burrow only in daydreams - were it possible to become a burrow-dweller, you instinctively know you'd be comfortable in that place. But some are drawn to something tangible, an actual metaphorical burrow, and set up home in some form of den, be it an isolated castle (for the wealthy) or rooms somewhere hidden in the crowd.

Most non-burrow people seek an audience of some kind, don't you? Some of you court an audience you know (such as your family or your friends) and you look for comfort there. Others seek an audience you can see but don't know (musicians) and get comfort there. For your part, it's true that some of you burrow-people seek an audience too isn't it, an audience of a particular kind (an audience  you can't see and don't know) and don't you tend to be authors? But surely, for the most part, you burrow-people really don't want any audience at all. 

Two types of burrow-person exist surely: 'anxious creatures' and  'disinterested gods'. You the anxious person are made anxious by an audience of any kind and are pushed towards thoughts of the burrow surely. You are burrowing away from something. But the disinterested god on the other hand actively seeks a burrow: you go to the place. You are 'above' the others (aren't you?) in that you know that to compete is vulgar. Occasionally your skills are far greater than others' skills and perhaps you amongst them don't need to compete in order to flourish. You will not be put in the company pecking-order of course, you will not go along with the made-up idea of what constitutes 'power' or 'status' and I am guessing that you will never lower yourselves so much that you actually compete for the vagina? (Dear God not that.) Goes without saying, I'm sure, that you female burrow-dwellers will not dress up to be the man's choice either.

You wish to be 'above it all' (odd then, that a burrow should appeal) and you would try to be so, by simply absenting yourself. You will not compete. It's a misfortune that, for most, the actual burrow is only a niggling fantasy, for no longer can you simply slip off into the depths of extensive woodlands and live off the land as once you could. If you others trouble to look, isn't it the case that you can actually see these burrow-people trying to cope in your unsuitable place?