social media

I’m terrible at hiding my emotions. I hate surprises. Small talk scares me. I don’t think my lack of this key survival instinct makes me a more real person, but rather a less enjoyable one. I don’t comment on acquaintances Instagram posts or slide up on their updated Snapchat glimpse of their excursion just to make them feel like I’m keeping them in my loop. I don’t care to be fake, but that doesn’t mean I don’t care at all. Unfortunately, to others it does, most people in this generation validate their relationships with others based on how much they interact through their phone instead of how they interact when together. Without my constant reminder of rehearsed commentary on posts I fall out of their loop while they think they’ve fallen out of mine. As a society of instant gratification we have lost the connections you make through time with people before they even have the chance to begin. A lot of great relationships die due to seconds when they would thrive off of hours. Patience is a virtue, so why do we divide our time into quantities of seconds instead of adding minutes to reach our virtues. Where did all the patience go?