The Loneliness of Humankind | Part 4

Westerners have taken this seriously, and at a macro level. Their health community has even a set of standards for the Lonely Scale; the former US General Physician did declare a "loneliness pandemic"; insomuch as the UK has so far got a Lonely Minister. The media have since been contemplative about loneliness. Studies have as well examined its impacts on personal health and the status quo.

Given that we've been in the most connected world on record, such a society could hardly ever soothe this; Rather, it has exacerbated our loneliness.

The community population, albeit skyrocketing, is as much pulled apart due to differences in background, race, occupation, religion, political opinion, class, and education. Since these things are always running against each other on the Internet. It's when we commemorate a precious past, howbeit straightforward and less independent, yet was somewhat of much higher consistency.

The modern society's complexity has little by little turned us poles apart, while our mind fails to mind everything. Which turns to maintain relationships more arduous and painful. Friends are by each other until graduation. Each afterward has his career, bears different things in mind, and holds different political views.

We are preoccupied with a number of things, which have been so predominated that we could hardly spare some time minding relationships. We've got work, housework, movies, comics, Netflix, dramas. They all take up most of OUR time - ours, not mine, or some others'.

The multifariousness has as well evoked the so-called sense of "isn't this a planet of 8 billion people?". Thus, it got us to overlook relationships. However, we're all being dogged by the lonely pandemic. We crave more ties for ourselves, yet less time for others. This is because we must work from hand to mouth, to service the freedom we have purchased (didn't we insist on this forlornness?), and to act upon the social conventions.

Together with the friendship-love conflicts we've all too often told of from old-school literary works (which might have been true), those of the modern society have turned our lives rather miserable: we've set so high an expectation that the reality could rarely afford.

We've every so often longing for friend hangouts. Still, those with friends "always crave friend gatherings so badly", many a time, fail their expectations since they've already been distracted - as usual -> fewer gatherings due to dissatisfactions -> more forlornness.

5. Never leap to judgment

The loneliness we're undergoing is pretty much the doomed result of the historical flow. They are the fruits of the biological pains originated mega-annum ago and the era's profound changes.

Such reformations, howbeit profoundly fundamental, have been as much smooth, which turns us negligent to our piecemeal dullness. Until the pandemic rocks us.

The young living on their own still thinks of life as a bed of rose until they're cardstock in their paradises for months. This, as far as can be seen, does hardly matter the traditional family model, wherein the whole family is together (turn to "Coco").

Think of one day, and the Internet ceases to exist. Everything would go wild. Forasmuch as humans would turn ourselves caged animals.

This is dormant, take, for example, a war outbreak, or some grave technical issues.

Personal efforts do work. Given that they're precisely the only thing we can do to grapple with our loneliness, they're purely drops in the "historical flow" ocean.

The solution to the pandemic might be your turn to go since the article is rather long.

Bear this in mind, we're only lilliputians reigned by Brobdingnagians.

Thus, hold dear to our little time on this planet. Don't let them slowly pass by.