It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

I cried when my ex-girlfriend sent me a text message saying how much she liked my present to her.

If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it has sort of it's own narrative that one could analyze and write literary criticism about.

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

I feel connected with people because of their sense of humor, worldview, and what they think and feel about certain existential issues (things not affected, in my view, by if someone rides a horse or drives a car or talks only IRL or only by typing), not how old they are, what they use to convey what they think and feel about certain existential issues, or if we have both watched the same TV shows or looked at the same websites.