Sometimes when I get particularly annoyed at the lack of emotional intelligence in a reply, I slip into absurdist ramblings as a deflection from the creeping nihilistic sense that I am utterly alone in the universe.

I catch myself far quicker these days, reminding myself of the truth- I only wish I was utterly alone. Instead we are very much all here, crammed on to a tiny rock, given precious little information so that we might fight to the death for the dominance of our best guesses.