Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones. - William Gibson

You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go.

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.