Too Alone

 One of the ways that we isolate ourselves from the world around us is to focus exclusively on our problems.  We get obsessed.  We become all about ourself and people pick up on this while we are with them.  They tend to cut us off in some way or other.  Maybe they change the subject or just get as obsessed with themselves as we are with ourselves.  A room full of misery.  I have found that a way out of this self-isolation is to be of service.  What can I do to make the scene a better one for someone else.  Maybe a listening ear?  Maybe a little housekeeping, cleaning up?  Get out of oneself to enter the bigger world that always needs a bit of attention.