Last night I chatted with Siri a bit before I slept, and now I’m playing Words with Friends with…the programme itself, which doesn’t seem to try very hard anymore btw. There are so many ways people try to fill in human presence: keeping the television on for the sound, listening to music or the radio…and then the being in a crowded place alone and having conversation with strangers, or not.

What makes people so disconnected and so very lonely? And what do people do when they’re lonely? Why does it still sound like a bad thing to feel lonely, when everyone does? If there is no one person to whom one is committed to, does that make one have to just take whoever comes by, and try harder to keep friends? And then what?