It feels like I am in touch with the whole world with all the internet & social networking. But I am wondering, how many REAL people are there in my REAL life. People who are not just emails, photos, wall posts. But people who are voices, bodies, reactions.
Living in a highly mechanized and automated society, sometimes I am so isolated that I don't see anybody other than my husband for almost 3 weeks! Then there is a friend or two once in a while.
If I were in Kenya, I would have at least seen the watchman, the driver, the maid, the milkmaid, vegetable vendors, shop assistants.. There's nothing here, I wonder when I last spoke to a stranger face to face!
It is amazing, that New York city is one of the world's densest in terms of population, but here I am, isolated in this ocean of people, it's like 'water water everywhere but not a drop to drink'.
It's not that I suffer from loneliness, I have enough friends online. But there is this realization, that the virtual me seems to be overtaking the real physical me.
Mankind first evolved and civilization could progress because human beings communicated a lot. But now, with this degree of progress & mechanization+automation, physical real world human interaction is being minimized, it has reached an all time low for me, very close to elimination! :-)
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