Aren’t we all left with needs- for love, care, attention, peace of mind? Do we lack something? No. I think the problem is abundance.
We have abundant opportunities to find new things and people. It easily makes us bored of what we already have. With a sea of people one swipe away in dating apps, we lose interest in people too soon. We are too restless to invest our entire emotion and time for a single person and are unsure whether to settle down with what we have or self-sabotage for a greater perhaps!
The reason why our generation is mostly depressed is that we are doomed to prove to ourselves that our existence is not absurd.
We try to find meaning in all the meaningless activities and eventually run out of energy to take more of it.
Modern man gets resorted to emotions beyond comprehension, where one fail to understand one’s own needs among the maddening abundance and grow desperate to try out everything.
We drool over the stories of our precursors where their chances of meeting a lot of people were less yet it was easy to find the perfect one from the limited choice!
We break up over a coffee or through a text message while they couldn’t afford the chance to communicate properly. My dreary heart finds me nostalgic for those unsaid words they might have kept within them which made them look forward to the next meet up!
We almost stopped putting effort to reconnect with old friends or spending a few moments with loved ones when a whole array of online friends (both genuine and fake) are available on social media. They may pretend to share your interest and yet where is the actual bonding happening? Even if we don’t have first-hand experiences, a part of us might wish for a heartfelt appreciation, someone’s efforts to soothe us with surprise visits, stay overnights or a chat over chai on a monsoon evening!
A major part of ourselves is shaped by the social construct we grew in. We were never taught to appreciate our triumphs, however little they may be. Unless and until we unlearn and relearn the basics of healthy bonding, we will forever fail to satisfy our soul and fill the voids of our hearts.
The easier the means to meet people, the more the people we want to meet. Our interest wax and wane like the moon. And eventually, nobody finds anybody. And we settle down with a rusted heart, falling out of love and emotions from time to time!
I think it’s appropriate to end this with a reminder from Don’t Worry About the Robots,
REMEMBER THAT WE ARE STILL GOING TO NEED HUMANS TO INTERACT WITH HUMANS.
