Connections with people are important, too.

After Elisa and her family left, and I left home for work, I basically became an island for the rest of the day. I did eventually participate in a card tournament and obviously this meant I took a few hours to engage with the people of the world. The strange part, and something I've heard in many forms from many different people for most of my life, is that I don't really feel like I was with people... connected to anybody in particular. I felt somewhat alone. It wasn't a totally unusual feeling but it did seem a bit magnified for some reason. I suppose I should be grateful. It does increase my motivation to seek out the opposite.