I think the world would be a better place if we could be helping each other out, sociability is one of the good things of being human.

Reading is really for melancholic periods but try this out "Sculpting in Time" by Tarkovsky. I don't know why but people seem to be totally hermetic to this wonderful soul searching song : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJhgwxSTHDs . I watched a lot of movies and I can talk about it for hours, just ask.