It's Okay, Robot

It would all be fine if she did something besides work at Starbucks—it could be anything really—if she volunteered at an aquarium, or collected tropical fish. I don’t mean to be judgmental, I’m just very invested in it all being fine, and it really isn’t. She and I will have a conversation, probably about Starbucks, that makes us both lonely. Other people who exist will feel lonely, and disappointed by low-sodium canned soup. Bacteria will continue to cause disease and other problems. There are so many interests she could have besides working at Starbucks—like deep-sea fishing, or ichthyology, the study of fish—but she is exclusively interested in working at Starbucks, and it’s definitely not all fine.