I would hazard a guess which you, ladies and gentlemen, might as well. In which we may have arrived to a point of doing an experiment for ourselves as go out and see how many people want to make eye contact with us in public. I don't care where you are. But I would hazard a guess that most people don't want to make small talk at all.

They don't want that interaction. Not saying it doesn't exist. But I'd say most people walk down any street and you'll see how many people are walking around with earbuds in and shutting out the world. Yeah, myself included. Sometimes.

So, I would also guess that you might be doing this as well. And why would you want to interact with people? Unknown people on the streets? Let's be honest. It really sounds stupid if you really think about it. Why would you given the choice want to put up with the social stress of having to be presentable, cordial and polite and not awkward and why would you want to put up with the challenge of having to make someone else interested in what you're saying or at least pretend to be interested in what they're saying?

Why to do that? ¿Huh? And then, also don't forget the added challenge of making them believe you that you just cared about what they said. It's exhausting, isn't it?

When you have this little box in your pocket that can feed you with literally anything you've ever wanted to know. Flooding your brain with enough dopamine by presenting you with little videos and pictures one after another tailored to the very minute interests and attention until you have all those likes, comments and all of these rewards you are longing.

Yeah, they are rewarding you with praise. Praise from other people that you don't even know online. Then, why the hell would you want to look someone in the eye and suffer that horrible awkwardness in real life? Doesn't seem worth it right?

This used to be like a boomer complaint right? All these dang kids only glued on their phones all the time. But not this time. It has actually become a boomer problem as well.

We now don't want to interact with each other as much as we used to, because we tricked ourselves into thinking that that interaction is already coming from places on our phones. While really what we're doing is simply distracting ourselves and avoiding that undesired awkward social interaction that looks like we are no longer willing to endure anymore.

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