The REAL Effect of Ghosting People | Simon Sinek

Think about the way we break up with each other. Right? I don't mean like you go on one date, you didn't like each other and you just, whatever, that's fine. That was somebody for four months, something happens, you meet somebody else, you decide you don't like them, whatever it is, and so you just ghost them. Yep. Drop that connection. Just unfollow on all the social media. You just stop returning replying to texts, you stop, stop returning phone calls. You just, it's as if you don't exist. And for the other person, it's panic, as, as if you've been killed in a car accident, which is, they don't know what's happened to you, they don't know where you are and they don't know what's happened. They can't get. And then once they realize you're fine because they can look on social media and see you're fine. Now the massive amounts of insecurity. What did I do? Was it me? It just, it destroys someone's self worth. All because one person was too afraid to have an uncomfortable, difficult conversation. Scream, shout, yell, I hate you, you never treated me right, blah, blah, blah, good, have closure.

You know, but the fear of confrontation to the point where you would literally destroy someone's innards, that will have lasting impact on how they relate to people from now on. All because you're a little scared to say, I think we should break up and see other people.

Or I met somebody else and I like them more.

That's a very difficult conversation to have for anybody. That's not easy or fun. But one person's fear creates complete destruction in another person's life and somebody thinks that's fine. And those are all skills, learnable, practicable skills that unfortunately are falling by the wayside.