Editor – How is it that we can all live in a town so small, yet we care so very little about each other?
Don’t get me wrong, I love this town and all its little idiosyncrasies, but sometimes it can be so tiring. You wish people could just take a few seconds out of every day and just be nice.
We all have problems – be they financial, work or health-related – but so often we hide behind our status.
Yet we pass each other by with a fake hello or nodded greeting.
Our greatest fear is if the other person actually engages us in conversation. We have become the smartphone generation, only able to exchange real pleasantries via WhatsApp, Snapchat or Facebook.
Our attention span for real human contact is limited to immediate family and that is it.
We spend the rest of our time avoiding direct human-on-human contact.
We are hurt by what we imagine people say about us online, but in the real world, our emotions are permanently off.
Chatting is what we now do on our phones. ‘Selfies’ are examined for every imperfection as we present a Photoshop veneer of ourselves for public scrutiny. Then we walk past a business and we see it is closed. People we know worked there and we realise just how out of touch we are!
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