Sustainable Happiness

Sometimes I look around and wonder –

how did we get so good at connecting,

but so bad at feeling connected?

We can message anyone, anytime.

Scroll through thousands of lives.

Zoom into meetings with no shoes on.



But still, something feels missing.

It’s not speed we’re lacking.

Or information.

Or access.

It’s warmth.

It’s being seen.

It’s feeling like we belong somewhere.

I think many of us are walking through life

feeling slightly invisible.

Even to the people around us.

Maybe that’s the real quiet crisis.

Not loneliness in the big, dramatic sense.

But a soft kind — a dull ache of disconnection.

And maybe the cure isn’t complicated.

Maybe it starts with

being a little more human with each other.

More eye contact.

More “How are you really?”

More “You matter. I’m glad you’re here.”

The kind of things that

don’t go viral

but might just save someone’s day.

If enough of us start doing that –

creating pockets of belonging,

making others feel truly cared for –

maybe we’ll shift something.

Not just in one life.

But in humanity’s overall well-being.