>I like being alone, but sometimes there are things I want to talk
> about with others. Not personal things, but cosmic things. I want to
> find people with huge minds that think huge ideas. I don't like to
> sit around and talk about someone's job, though someone's personal
> past might be interesting. I like hearing stories about people's
> pasts, but I don't care as much about hearing someone talk about
> someone else's personal life. I don't know that person and what they
> do in their life doesn't interest me.
>
> So I thought about going to a bar or something to just sit around and
> drink a beer...maybe look at the crowd and see if anybody looks like
> an ancient soul, but I haven't brought myself to do that.
>
> Whenever I get in the mood to talk to someone, but then look around
> and realize I have no friends, I dig a deeper hole in my mind and
> crawl into it. That sounds darker than it really is. What this
> actually feels like is an evaporation of the need to talk to someone.
> This is replaced with an even greater sense of isolation from the ...