https://michalmalewicz.medium.com/you-have-zero-friends-78fa7eb742d3
but I feel like it’s nearly impossible to actually meet new, real people. You know — of the offline kind.
I believe something is wrong — either with me, or with the world. Or both.
We send our friends some memes. Laugh at their memes in return by leaving a reaction. Or two.
Not even a word.
It’s scary how reduced our communication has become. We talk about world’s issues by laughing at memes, leaving reactions. Maybe this is why the world is becoming so weird lately — we don’t take the time to truly grasp it anymore.
There’s a funny meme for everything now. No matter how tragic.
I’m constantly overthinking even the simplest things.
In a traditional modern human fashion let’s push the blame away from myself and blame external conditioning. Maybe it’s the way society is nowadays.
Maybe social media made me forget about these normal, natural, human interactions.
Yeah, maybe. Or maybe not.
But I am going to change that.
The loop
They’re stuck in a loop of 8 hours of work, grabing takeaway and exhausted falling onto a couch. The human connection they have is feeling like those two guys invite you for some food and you’re there together.
What I think, is that most people are missing that connection and use YouTube influencers to make up for it. To have that internet friend that has no idea you exist. A replacement friend.
In an ideal world we should all just have a friend like that and have that experience once or twice per week.
It isn’t an ideal world though. We’re too busy to have friends anymore.
