On my mind frequently

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

—	Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

It doesn’t help that this culture values couples more than singles and will go out of its way to make it as if being single was like having the plague.