Constantly have to remind myself at work that while these people are the only other human beings I ever interact with, from their perspective people at work occupy the absolute lowest rung on their personal totem pole.

They all have wives, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, friends, children and such waiting for them outside work and the people they see at work (me) are no more important to them than a stranger they pass on the street. The fact that these people see me every day means nothing. I will never mean as much to them as a friend or family member.

Yet despite knowing this objectively, I still can't help but get hung up on them. I worry about what they think of me, these people who couldn't give a shit if I never turned up again, these people who I barely even talk to because I'm so anxious, and then I feel a sense of loss when someone moves on to a new job. I think I am so desperate for a real connection with someone that I end up placing an unwarranted importance on the only human interactions I have, which is with people at work. Yet for all my desperation nothing can ever happen with these people because I am looking in the wrong place.