Soaring in the heavens.. .

The sky was over-cast and except for a solitary eagle mounting high in the air, there was silence all around them...
"What desolate creatures they seem to be... you rarely find them in a flock....", she said looking up at the eagle.
He looked at her for a minute before looking up at the sky.
"Which is probably why they soar great heights...' he replied, "You reach great heights when you can be sure that there are hardly anybody around to pull you down"
She looked at him, " True... but you can't deny the fact that people matter"
"Not unless they share a common goal or purpose in life as you do and can be used tactfully to your advantage... the rest of them... don't even bother... they are a mere a waste of time... for they simply pull you down... and tear you apart!", he spoke in a manner that reflected a calm quietude.
His words rang through her head.
"Everything around you... everything... rests on the principle of "all for oneself'... Involve people - the right people - but get as less as emotionally involved as you can with them... and you will reach that far", he said, pointing his long well-shaped finger at the eagle which now seemed to disappear into the horizon.
A single raindrop settled itself on her eye-lash. It had begun to drizzle.
Pause.

"Yeah" she finally said "But I don't want to find myself THAT isolated either"
He smiled, his eyes fixated upon the horizon. "You already are, in case you didn't know... we all are... the only difference being, WE choose to wile away our time brooding over our state of isolation and loneliness, while the eagle probably uses it's state of isolation to realise it's strengths... and soar to great heights... "