Talking to people further away is easier, does this help us psychologically or hurt us? Do we promote healthy community lives or do we encourage an unhealthy amount of solitude?

When you can meet a new person everyday for the rest of your life, how important do we treat our relationships?

Is there a connection with the rise in the percentage of depression, and the continued disappearance of real stable life long community?

Imagine living in a community the size of the high school you attended. No one in this community can enter or leave the community, without death or birth, or some other extremely rare occasion. The people you know, will be the people you know all your life. When something good or bad happens, it happens to the entire community, not just to you.

Now picture that opposed to what we are living in and promoting now, and try to judge which might be psychologically healthier. Is there community in the relationships we try to form through technology, through distances, through large houses, large cities, large populations, random temporary acquaintances, anonymous, or even the relationships that we pour all our ability into to make as strong and as healthy as possible, while we still fully understand that every relationship has the ability to end at any moment, not because death, but because someone can easily fall in love with someone else, because someone can get a job far away, because someone can just hop on a plane and never answer another of your messages.

We all understand, no matter how much we want strong community, that the first sign of a problem in any relationship, we can just leave, disappear. In love, in friendships, in family. We can hop on a plane and be on the other side of the planet before the earth does one full rotation. We can just turn off our cell phones and never see the same person again in the same city.

When you break up with a person romantically, and then you run into them at the grocery store. That feeling that you have in your stomach, that is the feeling that you are looking at a ghost, because our bodies are programmed that if someone is part of your community, part of your daily life, and they disappear, your body thinks they died. So seeing them again, your body reacts as if it sees a ghost.