In the olden days, a chosen few had the rare pleasure of conversing with "pen pals" - people whom they had met once or twice at most, or not at all, but in whom they had found reflected, common interests. And these, they continued to discuss passionately through letters. Eagerly waiting until the next one arrived so that one could know the other's thoughts.
But gone are the days when you had to wait to hear from a loved one. The internet is a strange place, to say the least. Here too we can converse freely with strangers over shared interests. But it is also a place where thoughts as these pop up - we ignore each other to grab each others' attention. Read it again. And the irony is that such reflections surface on the very medium that fosters such social alienation. What a world.