I've been reading some books by Dean Koontze. "Frankenstein" There's 3 of them so far, with another due out soon.

I've never thought of him as a very deep thinker, his books are just stories. But he touched on something that got me to thinking. The good doctor is still alive & still making people. Only now he clones them to be what he wants them to be. Drones I guess to do what he programs them to do & nothing more.

I started compairing them to closet TS's

They want to be different than what they are, to do more than they were made to do. So they do things in secret, feeling it to be wrong, thinking there's something wrong with them, & having no hope of ever being able to change what they are.

A LIFE WITH OUT HOPE!

As the story goes on you see that life is not worth living with out hope. That with out hope there can't be happiness. You see, they can not change thier lifes. Day after day, year after year, they live with out hope of change.

Now think of the closet TS that feels the same way because of family, friends, job. With no hope of change, no hope of happiness. They feel they have to live the life they were given & nothing more.

How many of us feel this way. How many of us feel life is unbearable because we lack hope to change.