Radha Agrawal says loneliness has risen 300% and argues that belonging starts with knowing yourself and showing up actively. She contrasts living for others' expectations with building a connected life, noting that people often take from social spaces instead of engaging.
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Loneliness is up 300% and it's affecting everyone. The more hooked we get on Instagram and Facebook, the lonelier we get. Now the crazy thing is loneliness isn't just an act of boredom, it's self sabotage. Yet it's growing 300% rise in loneliness across the Western world. So today's conversation is with a woman who's out there to fight loneliness.
We spend so much of our lives sort of living for what others want of us, what our parents want of us, what society wants of us, what our sort of co workers want of us, without actually asking ourselves, what do we care about? How do I feel? A sense of deep belonging. I don't know how that happened, but one day I looked myself in the mirror at 30. I think it was just being 30 years old, looking myself in the mirror and I realized, wait, what is it that I want out of this life? Do I want to keep being in the hamster wheel of loneliness and pretending everything's great and I have all these friends but they don't really fulfill me? Or do I want to really push towards a life that is deeply meaningful? Participation is the cornerstone of belonging.
And I think so often we go to these spaces and we just take.
And we go to a conference and.
We just receive information we're always seeking.
As opposed to getting to know. Belonging starts with you have to belong to yourself first, but really knowing yourself, we have to know who you are first.
So the older we get, the more isolated we get and we it's time to change that and it's up to us.
