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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (7 children)

In my perspective (a lonely person generally accustomed with my loneliness), small talk doesn't seem to be the problem. The problem is the lack of people's interest in deep topics, such as the aforementioned nature of reality: people either don't have the needed patience, time, or both. People are so busy running through the survival game of the mundane existence that deep topics are left for their afterlives (if there's one), when human ideologies and need for survival cease to exist. Small talk is like "sorry I got no time to think about the ultimate question of life, universe and everything else, gotta go to my modern slavery where I'm not paid to think but to obey, bye!". Deep inside, seems like a fear of becoming lonely as those that, just like me, likes to think about the depths of the reality and breaking paradigms (for example, "shouldn't we discuss how existence is so fleetingly finite in the grand scheme of cosmos and how futile is to accumulate wealth and goods?" is a granted source of loneliness).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

There's someone out there that would love talking about that stuff with you if you haven't already found them just so you know! ❤️

Everyone's got a person with a similar wave length as long as they don't settle before then!

[–] TonyOstrich 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That doesn't mean they will ever meet though... 😅

Not the OP, but I seem to share at least some form of his experience and I actually think this "song" does a really good job of summarizing how I feel about it.

https://youtu.be/o9kbcGfX35M

I am as sure there is someone out there for me as I am of anything else I have a high degree of confidence in. On the matter of whether we will ever meet or not though, that I can't say. Maybe the world is too large and time is too great. In the grand scheme of things we will find out soon enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well if they settle before then, they'll for sure never meet.

[–] TonyOstrich 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Of course, though unfortunately the decision is not a binary one. If a person spends their whole life searching and not finding, it could be that putting the same amount of time and energy into something else would have resulted in a more fulfilling life. There are shades of gray with this too since it's not one or the other. Like most things it's all about balance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
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