Losing Touch with Ourselves Is the New Pandemic:
When people start acting like machines, turning to real machines becomes strangely comforting. We play games with algorithms, we seek guidance from AI, and it often feels more genuine than dealing with people who no longer feel alive in the conversation.
Somewhere along the way, we drifted away from ourselves — and lost each other in the process. Our interactions became predictable scripts. Calls sound like automated prompts. Reaching out without a purpose now feels almost wrong, as if authenticity needs a meeting invite.
Meetings, stand-ups, even celebrations follow the same bland choreography. We’ve been trained by countless “experts” to optimise our tone, posture, and language, until we’re performing humanity instead of living it. The person who used to notice, care, and feel has been replaced by a well-behaved template.
In a world that runs like a race, where consumption is marketed as purpose, we work harder to earn more so we can spend more — all to inflate a GDP figure no one actually lives for. Rarely do we pause to ask the most obvious question: why?
When humans become superficial, detached, and numb, society naturally seeks companionship in technology. Smart mentors, digital doctors, even virtual partners are arriving faster than we imagined. There is nothing inherently wrong with that.
The danger lies elsewhere. When we lose touch with ourselves and our community, we lose our grounding. And once grounding is gone, identity doesn’t disappear suddenly — it evaporates quietly.
