The whole concept of not knowing what you’ve got until it’s gone. Remember that song you used to hate hearing and now 20 some years later, you’d wish we’d be back to music like it because music today is too artificial and AI-powered? Remember nearly a lot of things you criticized and now have a soft spot for because everything now has gone to shit?
Yeah, that hits hard. What sucks is that sometimes, you don’t know for certain if you’re experiencing the best of things. But once it passes you, give it 1 - 5 years, you’ll know it.
The worst part is isolation. I think most of us are suffering from lack of community
Community comes with costs, and I don’t think many people are willing to pay the costs of community.
I for one, would rather be alone and happy, than part of a community and miserable. Like I was in the past. Belonging comes at a cost. The issue with modern life for many people is they want the benefits without the costs and that’s not how anything really works.
You have to give up your individualistic freedom to truly belong to something.