Connection.

"I seriously wonder if the problem is with me or with everything else around me. Note that I mentioned everything else and not everyone else for this is a post about how my perception on things have changed", She told him, finally when the sun started setting.

"I just no longer feel any kind of affinity towards most things in life. I feel lost on my purposes, no, scratch that, I feel I no longer even have a purpose. Maybe it's just these unprecedented times where everything has come to a stand still but I suspect something deeper is in action. There isn't much or even any attachment towards most things and I feel like a robot too, at times. I do want to feel a little more connected, I do want to be a little kinder, and I do want to be a little more, well, human. But there is nothing that takes me towards being that way. And most of all, I feel almost no remorse. Not that I do bad things or even intend bad things to anyone, but the very fact that I am not like most makes me wonder, more often than not, if I am even human.

"You won't let go off me, will you? Please don't, consider this a request.", she finished. He smiled, held her hands, looked into her eyes, said nothing at all. He stood up, finally, after what felt like an eternity to her, and said "Never.". He strode off.