It’s 7:26 am, and I have a yoga class at 8:30 am. I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Atlanta trying to understand the internet. My feeble mind can’t quite grasp the internet. I am trying to understand Discord so I can log into Midjourney to create an image and then go to ChatGPT to write copy for a new website, but my God, the internet world is f*cking crazy right now.
Anyway.
They were out of Earl Grey tea, so I got Black tea, whatever that is. I will tell you what it is; it’s too strong. That is what it is. Not strong as in it gives me a blast of caffeine, but too strong as in it makes my stomach go into convulsions. I dread going to the bathroom because, like all coffee shops in Atlanta built to encourage community, they have combination locks on the doors to keep the community out.
I woke up at 3:17 am this morning. From there, I laid in my below-average bed under the below-average blanket I bought at Costco and watched YouTube videos.
Whatever.
A gal on a podcast I was watching said something that caught my attention. She was a slow-talking therapist with a big red hat. The guy intervening her was a solid-looking dude who looked to be in shape and probably rich. Gen Z I’m sure.
I generally oscillate between self-help videos, artificial intelligence videos, and heroin junkie videos. Oh, I watched one last night about a woman who was raised by monkeys in the jungle of Colombia for four years from the age of four to eight. Here is the video if you are as weird as I am and like when people are raised by monkeys.
Anyway, the red hat therapist and rich Gen Z dude were talking about depression and so forth. He asked...
“Do you think there is more depression than ever before, and if so, why?”
Great question, rich-looking dude.
“I do and I think there is one major reason,” she replied slowly, hat not moving.
She went on to explain we are becoming more disconnected from each other due to technology and such. We don’t talk to a bank teller anymore; we talk to a machine for our money. We don’t talk to the barista anymore; we order on our phone and grab from the counter. We don’t talk to the checkout clerk at the grocery store anymore; we scan our groceries. We don’t go to the office anymore; we work remotely and alone.
Yikes.
We are slowly moving further and further away from human interaction, and that is causing our brains to malfunction.
So, I got my happy ass out of bed and came to this coffee shop. I walked directly up to the counter and said hello to the barista and ordered this horrific black tea.
Don’t eliminate the small interactions you have with humans during your day. Talk to strangers.
Trey
So good!