I'm aware of that. I'm a people person, I'm an emotional extrovert - I am not a loner by nature in the least. I talk to my partner frequently, I mean, we do live together after all. My partner just works a lot, and so it leaves me alone a lot. I don't really have anyone I can speak to frequently outside of her. I speak to my mother roughly once a week, I have a good friend whom I have infrequent, inconsistent contact with (though we have a deep connection when we do talk) and my brother whom I speak with every couple of months or so. These situations are largely dictated by their schedules, not mine. I'd be in more frequent contact otherwise, but it just isn't that way. The rest of my family is dead. Not much I can do about that. I can talk to them all I want, but for some reason, they never seem to talk back.
If it weren't for the current global situation I might not be bothering to talk to people virtually at all. I've been fine without virtual communication for the seven-ish years since I closed my Facebook account and ceased speaking to people on the internet. However, falling out with a close friend recently has caused me problems in regards to this. On top of that, the ongoing global situation has made us all more isolated in the real world, so I've turned to the internet for a little additional assistance.
I was actually making decent inroads into my agoraphobia before this crap came along and derailed everything. I guess what I am saying is that I don't really think it is particularly necessary to have virtual communication. Maybe it's just because I'm old enough to have grown up before the internet was ubiquitous, but I see it as an additional option, rather than something that must be part of one's life. In an ideal situation, I'd probably forgo the internet completely, but my life is far from ideal, so I'm here to use it to try to help me cope with how things are, and try to find a way to get myself to a situation that is closer to my ideal situation.
Btw - the quote is from "A Few Good Men", it's not bad for a Hollywood film. 6/10 for me and I'm a pretty hard marker.
I hope so. I really want be a force for good in this life. Some of my blogs and posts scare me a little to leave up. I have to resist the temptation to delete it all and run, but I truly want to help people, even if it means putting myself through a little discomfort in order to do so. There is no true courage without discomfort. I'm trying to be brave.
I do what I can.