The coronavirus is forcing
us to experience social distancing to the extreme, but actually we have been
flirting with separating ourselves from others for quite a while. And we’ve
been doing it by choice.
Several years ago I
remember being shocked at seeing three young women friends together in a
restaurant. They were sitting very close
to one another but were not paying attention to each other at all. Instead, they were all talking or texting on
their phones while their friends were right in front of them face to face. So
instead of communicating with each other, they were interacting with their
phones. Today, that has become a very common occurrence.
The social distancing that
society has experienced over the last ten years or so has happened so gradually,
that we have scarcely noticed it.
Little by little we left
the global community and chose to live within ourselves.
