My dad doesn’t call to talk about his feelings. He calls to tell me the weather in Melbourne, to mention that the footy was on, to ask if I’ve eaten. Then he says “right, well” and hangs up in under four minutes. He’d say he’s fine. And maybe he is. But I’ve been thinking a [...] The post Nobody talks about why the loneliest generation right now is the boomers, and it isn’t that their kids stopped calling or their friends moved away, it’s that they were raised to never need anyone, and now they’re in their 70s discovering that self-reliance and connection were never the same thing appeared first on Space Daily .
Nobody talks about why the loneliest generation right now is the boomers, and it isn’t that their kids stopped calling or their friends moved away, it’s that they were raised to never need anyone, and now they’re in their 70s discovering that self-reliance and connection were never the same thing
