#56
Sometimes I look at how people interact now and it honestly feels like we’re starving emotionally! Everyone is around each other, online or in real life, but not really with each other. There’s this quiet distance, this invisible wall.
It wasn’t always like this. People used to uplift one another, to share real presence, to ask how you are and actually wait for the answer. Community meant something.
There are many reasons for it. Social media, of course, made us all spectators. We watch lives instead of living them together. Capitalism also plays a role, turning connection into competition. And honestly, emotional independence is praised so much that dependence or needing others now sounds like weakness. But I would like to be weak sometimes, everybody does! We need more people who are emotionally safe and understanding.
I think deep down, everyone still craves closeness. We still want to be seen and understood beyond the surface. It’s just that vulnerability feels unsafe in a world where everyone is performing. So people withdraw, quietly. They scroll. They observe. And the space between us grows larger.