What I want when this is over: too see the faces of cute people, all the people, strangers too, and everybody else

Here's what's up with me at this very moment. I don't want to get back to regular scheduled programming, yet, with all the expectations etcetera, so there's going to be a many inward-facing 'emotional' pieces for the foreseeable future. When I run out of those, as I'm bound to eventually even though I'm one big fat narcissist one cannot be infinitely so, we'll get back to regular programming. Until then, suck on this.

I was out on a walk to harvard square this evening, and there's something I realized I've been missing a lot without noticing it. People's faces. And people in general. Seeing other human beings, random strangers, general acquaintances, old crushes, potential lovers, all of the people. Really, besides the people in the regular circle and some annoying randos on the streets who for who knows what godforsaken reason won't wear masks even at this absurd point in time, you don't get to see anyone's face! And specially not interesting exciting people, because either they're all indoors, or not where you're at. That's one reason I really hope that people don't work from home forever and we all have to go back to physical offices eventually because it's going to misery, total desolation depression and misery when you're not seeing real people on the streets at stores and anywhere else because those mofos decided to hide out in their suburban prison homes forever, disconnected from everything and everybody else because they don't like people. Here's what I think about the idea: it's stupid. So very stupid. That's not how humans work, or social beings function, it's counterproductive, and could fuel the distance between different sociopolitical groups even further. People will become less empathic and more...robotic, pathological killers almost. Skip the wfh, go see some goddamn real human faces, and realize you're a person who needs other people.

Loneliness is what makes many a monster, and the conclusion of this horrible awful pandemic should not be that we should be less social and more loners. It should go all the way to the other end, and we should realize that in the end, all that matters is that we're safe with our friends family and community, and when nothing else is working, it's their company and safety that we live in the comfort of.

That's going to be a topic of another post actually, what the social ramifications of the end of the pandemic might be, and if we're bound to see another roaring twenties.