it took me 6 years working abroad to realise that I could speak more freely with a random stranger from my homeland, than I ever could with my (now ex-)girlfriend.
I went to japan once (pre-pandemic) and it was a little bit crazy how whenever us english-speaking folks would run into each other we were suddenly best friends. The people I work with would be lucky (good or bad, idfk) to see me speak to any of them throughout the entire course of a day.
Individualism is a good way to get depression. Meet new people, make friends, go to public places. Humans evolved as a social species.
Also, find some ways to chill in nature wherever you can. Humans didn’t evolve in a concrete and plastic environment.
I learnt that humans are happiest when their environment most closely reflects the one we evolved in.
So I got myself a couple of parasites, killed my neighbour and stole his wife.
it took me 6 years working abroad to realise that I could speak more freely with a random stranger from my homeland, than I ever could with my (now ex-)girlfriend.
I went to japan once (pre-pandemic) and it was a little bit crazy how whenever us english-speaking folks would run into each other we were suddenly best friends. The people I work with would be lucky (good or bad, idfk) to see me speak to any of them throughout the entire course of a day.
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I think you mean “isolation”. Individualism had nothing to do with being alone or not making friends.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/individualism
Yes, but I used the term individualism on purpose.
I think that a mostly individualist culture leads to more isolation, and we, as a society, should be encouraging more collectivism.
Isolation is a symptom of a bigger problem for most IMO