Humanity

I'm sitting in the library at school. There's humanity surrounding me, everywhere. More specifically, my age humanity. People in coats and scarves studiously bending over books and computers, trying to succeed at school. Only a few of us speak, the rest go about doing our homework silently, as if we were the only ones here.

It confounds me, when I stop to think about it. Here we ALL are! Brilliant, creative, unique individuals with reasons why we're here, and reasons why we don't want to be here. There's so much life here! The man next to me is Asian, wearing a hoodie with a fur collar. His hair is all bleached blond in the front, and short and black in the back. The man on the other side of me is black, he's all bundled up, and he's researching African history. I don't think they even know I'm here, they're so set on exactly doing their jobs. There's another young man in a yarmulke, and a girl on Facebook.
Such original faces. There should be such loveliness! But there isn't, we just go about our work. No connection. No conversation. No sharing of this collegiate world we're all stuck in.

Does anybody else think of this? Is anyone else wondering how to break out of this pattern? Am I the only one who doesn't understand this distant, incurious school routine?

I just don't get it.