It didn’t used to be. At least for me and i don’t recall constantly seeing posts on social media about how lonely and sad everyone was or how to make friends. Now every other magazine article is about how lonely everyone is, nobody gets together, and gen Z doesn’t socialize, drink, or have sex.
Why is there such an epidemic of loneliness and why are people content to be lonely rather than socialize?
Why is so hard to connect? Because people having nothing in common anymore? I used to connect with people over books, movies, hobbies, etc. But now it feels increasingly hard to do that. Most folks I meet don’t care about any of that, they just mostly complain about their lives to you or go on political rants about how unfair the world is.
My friends and my dates no longer seem to watch films, or do much of anything other than spend time on social media? I dont’ use social media so I’m pretty ignorant of it all.
I’ve known about UU my whole life, as a kid I was taught they were heretics who were going to hell. I grew up in a fundamentalist Baptist church, have now abandoned religion and I consider myself a humanist. My wife has been wanting to go to church again with our 2 daughters, been doing research and found UU church near me. Went 2 weeks ago and it was an awesome experience. I will try another UU church that looks like it may be a better fit for my family (more famies, the first one we went to was in a retirement town, only a few kids) this weekend. I definitely look forward to being with a group of people who have the same ideals and have a place to volunteer and help my local community and get involved in activism
If you go let me know how the experience was. I hate the idea of going to church but the UU churches went to was the best religious experience I’ve ever had