Rebuilding Rob

Apparently this isn’t much of A new story; But somehow it slipped below the radar for me. Recent studies have indicated that Generation Z, or Gen. Z, is the loneliest generation living today. 

I don’t know that Gen Z really is the loneliest generation. Personally though, I feel like we are all living in an incredibly lonely, detached time. And it’s easy to blame social media for that, or smartphones in general. They are a great time-suck. Sometimes I think we’re more concerned about looking at what people are doing or saying actually finding out for ourselves people are doing and saying.

I for one don’t even agree with these classifications of generation X, Generation Y generation Z, millennials. I used to think that a generation was roughly 25 years. These categories seem to be getting smaller, but I digress.

I, however, am by no means a member of Gen. Z. Or millennial. By most people’s determination, I am generation X. But I’m also on the train 50 years old period I’m sure I’ve read about this before, but as I get older I realize that I am lonely. I’m not sure if that’s normal or not.

I think of what my dad was like when he was 49. I don’t think that he really had friends. He certainly didn’t have guys that he went out with. He had work colleagues and he was always a very social guy; but I wouldn’t say that he had friends, per se.

Let’s face it: COVID we made people who already felt lonely feel even lonelier still. more than that I think a lot of people have settled into their post COVID realities. I have a few friends who work from home they seem to enjoy it. Courtesy to enjoy having pieces zoom calls or team meetings instead of having people in the courtroom. 

I feel like the movie industry has never fully recovered from COVID. Right now it seems streaming services have really captured the Americans entertainment time Emily period of course, doesn’t help the movie industry that television is making significantly better products than the film industry.

It’s easy to blame Covid at so many of our societal and personal woes. I’ve been off the dating apps for a few months. I’ve been trying to get myself to that point where I could say “I’m happy with myself“ but I must admit that I am lonely.

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