It didn’t used to be. At least for me and i don’t recall constantly seeing posts on social media about how lonely and sad everyone was or how to make friends. Now every other magazine article is about how lonely everyone is, nobody gets together, and gen Z doesn’t socialize, drink, or have sex.
Why is there such an epidemic of loneliness and why are people content to be lonely rather than socialize?
Why is so hard to connect? Because people having nothing in common anymore? I used to connect with people over books, movies, hobbies, etc. But now it feels increasingly hard to do that. Most folks I meet don’t care about any of that, they just mostly complain about their lives to you or go on political rants about how unfair the world is.
My friends and my dates no longer seem to watch films, or do much of anything other than spend time on social media? I dont’ use social media so I’m pretty ignorant of it all.
tbh I have given up on being initiator because it is so draining to be around people who actively choose to be unhappy despite their life being objectively great.
like i went on a date two weeks ago with a new woman I met… she spend 45m complaining about her stocks don’t doing as well as she wanted, her tennis game not being as good as she wanted, etc. it was frustrating and annoying how selfish and self-important she was. i find this experience to be very common… people are super negative and refuse to be positive about their circumstances. this person was living a life better than like 99.5% of everyone else. but seemed to think their life was a failure because they were not a billionaire or something.