Loneliness is at 300% and it's affecting everyone.
The more hooked we get on Instagram and Facebook, the lonelier we get.
Now, the crazy thing is loneliness isn't just an act of boredom.
It's self-sabotage, and yet it's growing,
300% rise in loneliness across the Western world.
So today's conversation is when a woman goes out there to fight loneliness.
We spend so much of our lives sort of living for what others want of us,
what our parents want of us, what society wants of us, what our,
you know, sort of co-workers want of us, without actually asking ourselves,
"What do we care? How do I feel a sense of deep belonging?"
I don't know how that happened but one day, I look at myself in the mirror at 30.
I think it was just being 30 years old, looking myself in the mirror and
I realized, "Wait. What is it that I want out of this life?
Do I want to keep being in the hamster wheel of loneliness and pretending
everything's great and I have all these friends but they don't really fulfill me?
Or do I want to really push towards a life that is deeply meaningful?"
Participation is the cornerstone of belonging.
And I think, so often, we go to these spaces and we just take.
And we go to a conference and we just receive information.
We're always seeking as opposed to getting to know.
We know belonging starts with if you belong to yourself first.
With really knowing yourself. We have to know who you are first.
So the older we get, the more isolated we get.
And time to change that, and it's up to us.