{"id":824,"date":"2023-07-16T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T05:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2023-07-16T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T05:28:19","slug":"its-an-ever-over-connected-economy-but-we-have-never-been-more-lonely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/16\/its-an-ever-over-connected-economy-but-we-have-never-been-more-lonely\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s an ever & over connected economy, but, we have never been more lonely!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The barrage is non-stop. Requests for connections. Another feather in the cap. Another vanilla metric to flaunt your social standing. Another ‘virtual friend’.<\/p>\n

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The legendary\u00a0Greek Philosopher Aristotle<\/strong>\u00a0once said, \u201cMan is by nature a social animal, an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.\u00a0Society is something that precedes the individual<\/em><\/span>.\u201d He said this because human beings live in groups whether they are smaller like a family or larger like a city or country.<\/p>\n

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And that precisely is the reason why societal interventions seem to be dominating the discourse when it comes to offering solutions\u00a0to foster connection, often to the exclusion of more individual ones.\u00a0There are myriad theories about why we are struggling to connect, and just as many proposed solutions.<\/p>\n

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According to\u00a0Surgeon General Vivek Murthy<\/strong>, the\u00a0United States<\/strong>\u00a0is in the throes of what he\u00a0recently labeled a loneliness \u201cepidemic<\/a>\u201d, with nearly one in four Americans over 18 say they often or always feel lonely. Things may not be very different in other countries.<\/p>\n

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Findings at the intersection of\u00a0neuroscience<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0psychology<\/strong>\u00a0suggest that feelings of loneliness are a biological\u00a0signal, a clarion call to remind us that we need other people. That being said, there is a theory that runs counter to the default. Without the crutch of social connection, what we, as individuals can do to alleviate the situation- most of them are frictionless and non controversial- like engaging with nature or woods( if our modern day cities have them), physical exercise, one on one cognitive intervention and such like.<\/p>\n

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Mind you that this is not a prescription asking you to plough a lone furrow but a reconciliation to the fact that we need the best of both worlds to fight this ‘\u00a0epidemic<\/strong>\u00a0‘ via a personal as well as collective approach.<\/p>\n

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As we all know, it takes nothing to join the crowd, but, you also have to go ahead, even if no one goes with you.<\/p>\n

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”\u00a0Alone is a state of being or body, whereas loneliness is state of mind\u00a0<\/strong>“-\u00a0Invajy<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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As I conclude, may I tempt fate and ask you to take a look at this article in\u00a0BrandKnew\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>about the power of emotions.<\/p>\n

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ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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