Skorch: man is inherently alone. if man cannot handle being alone than he is hanging too hard onto the world, and he will break down when you take things from him. when a man is alone, you can take everything from him, you can strip him naked, and he will not cease to be.
all i'm saying is that one should never expect breaks in life. if you have a good thing happen to you, you lucked out, but you can't expect other people to always be there, for any consistency other than what you can create for myself.
that's the point of "Cactus"