I'm committed to meeting my full life goals again. In lieu of having an actual full life.
It's alarming how quickly human beings form emotional attachments, even now when we are all apparently self absorbed droids. I don't mean infatuation, or even love. Just intense co-dependence which makes you want to reach out to your phone, and tell the person you are attached to (the attachee?) about all the random things that happen to you through the day. Is it because most of us are disconnected from the people we physically spend the day with? And it's much easier to open up when the interaction is mediated by technology?
On one hand it is. We are all funnier on chat when you can edit a message thrice before finally hitting send. When it's easier to hide behind privacy settings and take time to send out a more thoughtful reply. It's easier to hide the momentary irritation, the giveaway facial expressions that could open up a chasm between people. It also probably makes you braver in admitting things than you would otherwise because the fallout (good or bad) is not immediate.
On the flipside, how do you know if the other person is even interested in you and your life? If you can't see their face, if you can't see how focussed they are on you as you talk, if their interest is taken up by other tabs, other chat windows?
