Lol .... I've been chatting with a nice guy at the supermarket every time I go there. I don't know him nor do I really want to ... he's just nice and I want to be nice back. I'm a guy, I'm not gay, I was just being nice and friendly. I'm brown indigenous, he's Indian and I live in a mostly white area so I thought I'd take an extra step to be nice to someone who is different because I know what that feels like.

Last time I saw him, he answered me back with 'Why?' Every time I asked something about his life

I asked how ~~good~~ his family was ... has he been traveling anywhere special lately ... what have you been up to?

I don't know him and I just wanted to chat about something, anything and at one point I felt strange.

But he was good about it ... I told him I ~~was~~ just wanted to chat ... he laughed and said it was alright and we talked for a while.

The world is getting weird I find and it's getting harder to just talk to anyone without some form of suspicion between people.

It was always like that to a degree as far as I can remember (I'm on my 40s) .... but I find it seems to be more so these days.

EDIT: typos

[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keep being you. Fight that feeling one person at a time, we should all follow that example.

You're not imagining things, the world is not just "getting weird" but division is sown our way from a multitude of places for their own profits and agendas.

Yet, we must be silenced. The people can not be allowed to speak. Even as dystopia gives the diseased members of the species ever more powerful and abstract tools to divide us, they still fear us talking.

That's because what you're doing is literally all it takes to begin eroding the artificial pen walls. We're made to communicate and tell each other stories, that's deeply ingrained.

What we're losing slowly and globally is our sense of cohesion. Neighbor to neighborhood, resident to city, citizen to country, human to human.

All of our innate mental structures that trend towards "making it all work, no matter who is helped because it helps me too" are constantly being twisted and attacked. But we are what we are, so keep fighting the good fight.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the encouragement and reassurance ... I have a lot of dark ideas of the future of this world and a lot of anger, resentment and disappointment at humanity ... but I do hold out hope, especially towards any human being near me.

I will keep fighting ... I will keep holding on to connecting to my fellow man and woman ... but at the same time I do remain pessimistic and disappointed. I like people ... but I have a different view of society as a whole.