you bet it is...
only thing is that it is connected by a hundred thousand strings, visible, invisible, tenuous, strong, loose, tight, thick, thin, whatever... but connected nevertheless to a hundred thousand people...important-in-our-lives, and not so important, and not important at all, distant, close and personal, far and near...
and there's nothing we can do about it other than try and wiggle around and create a little space where we can be what we really are...
so that the tugging and pulling strings don't disfigure us, instead, they emanate from us...