Every Man Is an Somebody once said that no man is an island. But aren't we all islands, really? I mean, we get up and go to work in the morning and we talk to the people around us, saying hello as we all crowd around the coffee maker. That coffee maker is the causeway that connects us to each other like an island that is connected to the mainland. But once you cross a causeway, you usually stay on the mainland for a while. At the office, we reach out on that causeway of a coffee maker, or maybe it's a Xerox machine, but we don't stay on the mainland. Instead, we retread to our desks and computers, going back across that causeway to become islands once more. Each cubicle stands alone in the midst of the archipelago of skyscrapers that is the working world.
As a matter of fact, nearly everything in this modern world promotes a solitary life, or dare I say, even hermitage. Human contact is no longer necessary for even the most social of modern day practices – one can order food without a waiter, buy clothes without a salesperson, and even date without meeting face to face. So, in this day and age, it truly can be said that every man is an island.
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