As I stare out there, contemplating...

Where should I really be?

I'm having dinner here with a mixed group of people, but what are they really?

They are colleagues. Business partners. Co-workers. Strangers.

Friends?

I feel that I may not be contributing as much as I should be.

Maybe that I really am and just don't realize it. Maybe I am not and they don't realize it.

I hope this is where I belong. At least for now.

Because being out in the distance, yet again, would probably be my last resort.