Just One Word

"I used to feel so alone in the city.
All those gazillions of people and then me,
on the outside.
Because how do you meet a new person?
I was very stumped by this for many years.
And then I realized, you just have to say, "Hi."
They may ignore you.
Or you may marry them.
And that possibility is worth that one word."

-Augusten Burroughs
Author of Running with Scissors