Maria J
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Maria J
Tech optimists keep promising us we’re just one innovation away from magically enhancing our capacity for connection and meaning. Meanwhile, the messy, unoptimisable business of being alive remains stubbornly resistant to algorithmic solutions, reminding us that our limitations are the very features that make our existence worthwhile
-Kai, Dense Dis
... See moreSo how is it that we have entered into our most digitally connected age ever yet loneliness is at an all-time high?
A few things come to mind:
A few things come to mind:
- The new ways we connect lack depth
- We face information overload from too many people we don't care much about
- We move locations and jobs more often
- Information is decentralized: we go to technology for a
What the Loneliness Epidemic Says About the Way We Connect
The epidemic of constant communication
open.substack.com
“We are living in an epidemic of constant communication. Love, once measured by presence and understanding, is now quantified by response times and message frequency. Love shouldn’t be a quiet battle over who cares more. It should be felt in the spaces between words, in the trust that lingers even in silence–even miles apart. The right person won’t demand proof of love; they’ll know it’s there–unspoken but unwavering.”
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Don't follow you
And the strangeness, it all works
Let it swallow you
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I don't write, write the rules
Don't follow you
And the strangeness, it all works
Let it swallow you
See me (It's all a hoax)
See me (Play along)
I'm funny (It's just a joke)
For real (You're not wrong)
See me (It's all a hoax)
See me (You can call it a joke)
I'm funny (Play along)
For real (It isn't wrong)
Funny Music
Funny Music
I'm funny for real
I'll ha... See more
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Interestingly, the experiences that persist in this way are not necessarily the most superficially severe. The experiences that persist are just the ones that weren’t fully processed at the time, the experiences you didn’t have the time, space, or tools to get over contemporaneously.
Sasha Chapin • How I Wish Trauma Had Been Explained to Me
Nothing determines what real suffering is except your mind; there is no other test.
Sasha Chapin • How I Wish Trauma Had Been Explained to Me
Nothing determines what real suffering is except your mind; there is no other test.
Emotional regulation is the process of experiencing an emotion, allowing the sensations to pass through the body (rather than trying to distract oneself with, say, drugs or alcohol or an iPhone or food), identifying it (‘I am angry right now’ or ‘I am sad’), and breathing through it until it eventually passes. The practise of emotional regulation e
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