We all are awkwardly placed socially!

We all are awkwardly placed socially!

It’s the side effect of pandemic. We have lost touch with our peers, we have been deprived of interactions, social mingling.

Covid-19 outbreak has disrupted academic year, no classes, no schools, and cancellation of examination all across the country. To ensure that students don’t miss out on their studies, schools have shifted to online classes, forcing students to work with laptops and mobiles.

There have been number of views are in discussion, if this distance learning for school going children would keep them away from developing certain social skills? Whether increased screen time is harmful for students? There are arguments on both the sides and a convincing argument is children were addicted to screens well before Covid-19.

What about grownups? People are separated from a social interaction- by situation or by choice- people are feeling more anxious, isolated, awkward and intolerant on certain aspects. It seems we are losing our agility and sensitivity in social circumstances, whether we are aware of it or not. The signs are visible, in every behavior of us, at various life situations. There is some kind of social audacity cropping up which can become entrenched if we fail to recognize and don’t take steps to minimize it.

We all are wired internally to remain social and we long for someone’s company. When we are cut off socially, our brain start reading this signal as threat. Felling lonely, alone or isolated is as much like a biological phenomenon as we feel hungry or thirsty. Failing to interact with other people-friends, relatives leads to negative physiological effects.

Although, we are with our loved ones at home, our spouse, children, parents, siblings etc., still we feel sadness, irritated, worn out, anger because you are not getting full range of human interaction what we are supposed to get. It’s just similar to not getting balanced diet.

Daily and regular interaction with others gives us sense of belonging and a kind of security. That’s why keep your social skills alive in this unsocial times and kill the social awkwardness.