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Most of my friendships are long distance nowadays, or over the internet, so I tend to know people for like half of my life and meet them once a year if it all.
by prohobo 5y ago
Most of my friendships are long distance nowadays, or over the internet, so I tend to know people for like half of my life and meet them once a year if it all. That's all good, but sometimes I just think why not actually organize and do something? Everyone is struggling with their own things and we talk about it often, but it'd be great to actually contribute and help each other out.
It feels like everyone is always in their own world. It's not a very productive way to live.
And yeah, I can respect a real nomad; but at least create some bases!
- bandibus 5y agoAgreed - but I think some of that is just people being people. I know very settled & traditionally rooted folk who have absolutely retreated from the world. I don't think being in one place automatically makes you more sociable and communally minded. (Also, the longer you're somewhere, the more you tune stuff out & stop seeing what's really going on around you...) So yep, totally agree that a siloed existence is a miserable one - and unhealthy too. I just think it can happen everywhere, including in small communities. It sounds super-trite, but there's nothing that kicks me out of a self-absorbed funk more than genuinely helping a friend with something and feeling like I did a good thing. That's not really a location phenomenon, that's more an attitude-based one? And it's infectious too. We're all herd animals really...