Where is the connection?
"I know we haven't met, but I don't want to be an ant, you know? I mean, it's like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continuously on ant auto-pilot with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing along in an efficient polite manner. "Here's your change." "Paper or plastic?" "Credit or debit?" "You want ketchup with that?" I don't want a straw, I want real human moments. I want to see you. I want you to see me. I don't want to give that up. I don't want to be an ant, you know?"
That really resonated with me lately. Lately, I've been feeling a little disconnected. Disconnected with my parents, my friends, and sometimes, even myself.
I guess that's the why I'm here on the Internet.
Where is the connection? What an ironic question in a hyper-socialized world...
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Have you read The Book of
Have you read The Book of Merlyn by T. H. White? There's an interesting part about ants...
Anyway. Maybe the hyper-socialization is the problem. There are so many surface connections that they don't mean anything anymore.
Yeah
I heard it's about war and peace, but I didn't actually get to read it myself.
Maybe looking for a soul-to-soul connection is itself, an illusion. Maybe it can't be achieved, and I might as well give up looking.
Cynicism is the ultimate solution.
At the end of the day, what matters is not what you have, but who you have become.
Is that a quote from
Is that a quote from something?
And, will....that's depressing. I kind of automatically turn to cynicism too, but still...
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Sorry if it depressed you.
I'll try to be more optimistic tomorrow =) Yeah, it's a quote from the movie "Waking Life".
At the end of the day, what matters is not what you have, but who you have become.