from leg pains to existential questions

I don't know if it happens to others but my legs tend to ache if I sit in the same posture for a long time. It was one of those days when I was condemned to lab for most part of the day and other than water, loo and lunch, I wasn't getting up from my seat. By evening I was feeling really grumpy and decided to break the monotony with a nice little walk. I walked out of the campus, went to our junction, saw the traffic and took a U turn. I walked to the stadium and settled on one of those really wide road dividers, green with grass and shady with nice trees.

I could have been lost in my own world and maybe I was. Sitting  by the road at 6:30 in the evening, I saw speeding bikes, cars (with only a driver in it), buses, seven seaters, etc, etc... More so I was concentrating on the passengers in buses and seven seaters. As a silent spectator, watching things from a distance, people and events seemed so strange to me. People in the bus who were sitting by window would lean on the window and look at the world outside listlessly. People standing in bus would stare at the empty space in front of them thinking god knows what. I don't know how or why, but at that moment, automatically those lyrics of Eleanor Rigby came to my mind -

Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

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All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Pretty strange that I should talk about lonely people when I am the one who has recently adopted (without option :( ) the 'go solo, going strong, FTW' mantra. But well, things come randomly and on this occasion, things seemed to fit. Even though seven seaters were filled to capacity, people in it were zombies to fellow passengers. I don't know if it's the right thing to do but shouldn't we talk to our fellow passengers too? Aren't we social animals at the end of the day? Don't we need human company to survive? And what about people in their cars? Don't they get utterly bored travelling alone? Don't they feel claustrophobic? stuffed in a car, cut off from reality, some trance, club or house music blasting their ears at 130 bpm. If I had a car, I would stop at some random stop and give someone a lift so as to have some company. A girl... even better :P but someone. Don't others think that way? or it that the IT crowd is so lost in its own codes, production deadlines and releases that it has forgotten to be social? Or worst... is that the world is all normal and an existential crisis has just kicked in me?