Masks, Isolation, Social Distancing. Didn't This All Happen Right At The Time We Should Have Been Seeking More Connection As A Species?
We are all fully aware of the epidemic of people being solely focussed on their tech in recent years.
How often do we sit in a restaurant with someone we are supposedly spending quality time with and look around to see a room full of people completely closed off from eachother lost in some bizarre cyber prison completely ignorant of the person sitting opposite them?
Often we remark on this sad indictment to the person sharing a table with us only to turn to them and realise they are lost to us, completely and utterly engrossed in the latest burning topic on Twoddle, or some insignificant drama between two people they barely know on Fakebook or taking a selfie for their Instagroan profile...
We are all fully aware of this, occasionally ((or often, you are the self judge here)) guilty of the very same, yet this glaringly obvious threat to connection, I mean genuine one on one connection marches onward relentless.
You may even be aware of the science behind this phenomena, the dopamine addiction effect that makes checking that latest ping, relishing that last like or staring adoringly at the small heart emoji beneath that latest heavily edited, airbrushed selfie we just posted absolutely irresistable.
Yet as I sad intrinsically we know it is a problem, we see teens wandering in groups while none of them have any interaction whatsoever and we lament the youth of today whilst engaging in exactly the same activity.
Hypocrisy, right?
I have set certain boundaries in my home, although my Daughters are all grown up and my partner is well into her 40's too, I heavily imply that certain times are 'phone free'. If we spend time together to watch a movie, a rarity these days if I am honest I mention just how easy it is for us to spend 90-120 minutes without a phone.
If anyone breaks the phone embargo I sigh passive aggressively ((hey at-least I admit it)) and things quickly return to normal.
Does everybody else do this I wonder?
I just think the measures that are now in force due to Covid have potentially repressed people's urge to connect at an exponential rate. I know everybody says they cannot wait for things to get back to normal or at-least something vaguely reminiscent of normal BUT will all this solitude have an unwelcome effect on life when we are able to be free again?
I feel like the media and global governments have almost stigmatised anybody who isn't us... I know several people who have tested positive recently and a disturbing trend I have noted is the urge to reconstruct the events of the previous days leading up to the diagnosis and find the likely culprit that infected them... This is tantamount to finding somebody to blame right?
It's almost like random passersby, strangers and even our good friends are being demonised at a subconscious, maybe even subliminal level. Or am I just overthinking again? This is something I have pondered a lot since this whole scenario began playing out early in 2020,
I hope this is not something that is going to have a negative effect on humanity's ability to connect freely after this is all done with.
Do you believe we are at a serious risk of losing the capacity to love unconditionally again, to love our neighbour as the age old expression goes?
I do hope not as I wholeheartedly believe our ability to connect, empathise, and form strong bonds from places of similarity rather than focussing on our differences is something we need to master pretty quickly if we are to have any hope of progressing as a species.
What do you think? I sincerely would love to know!
Do you think life will ever go back to 'normal?'
Thank YOU for taking the time to read my post and if you're one of those amazing people who like to hit the comments section... Then I doubly thank YOU!
Either way I want you to know that you are appreciated!
Keep taking the time to connect with each-other both here and in the so-called real world and try and look after each-other, because as you already know...
I find this isolation very devastating for many people, there is a rise in suicides and feelings of loneliness that are overwhelming too many. It is in human nature to need and have connections with one another, the covid isolation is very trying and harmful. I see this in a totally different way also, working in a hospital. Patients who need their families in times of crisis are only able to have 1 visitor for short visits. This affects the minds healing, we can heal bodies but the minds need others to help with healing and encouragement. We can only hope the people wake up before to late and we are lost to ourselves in deprivation of human touch and contact.
Once upon a time, there was SARS. SARS was eradicated and things went back to normal. Now there is Covid-19. Once Covid-19 is eradicated, things will go back to normal. How soon will that be? It all depends on how sensible, and rational the human animal is. At the rate, and the way they are behaving, it is going to take a while for things to go back to normal.
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