Watching a story on Newsmax about a teenager named Trevor Till who committed suicide because of the covid lockdowns and utter lack of socialization.
This kid appeared to have everything going for him and yet he took his own life. His mother ran down the list of activities that Trevor did and the only thing that comes to mind is that this poor kid was so seriously over-scheduled that he never learned to be alone with his own thoughts.
Maybe rather than schedule our kids from sunrise to sunset, we focus more on teaching them to be alone with their thoughts. I see this in so many people who do not have this ability.
Yes we need each other but there are times that we need to learn to comfort ourselves or find our comfort in a higher power and yet where does one learn this ability?
Most people have no idea how to be individuals, they can only function in a collective.
Individualism has been attacked for decades now, people fail to see that being an individual does not equal being an egotist, you MUST be a definitive individual to learn self-control and personal responsibility.
As for me, I feel like you could send me to a little shack in the middle of the woods in Alaska by myself for 1 year, and after said 1 year had passed and someone came up to the shack I'd be all like "hey, what's up" as if nothing out of the ordinary happened.