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Writer's pictureMaricris Irene V. Tamolang (Iris Valera)

Hey, Stranger!

Updated: Nov 26

With whom do you share your thoughts?


Mine? Of course, I am sharing it with you right now.


I know. You are a stranger. But who cares? These days, we can become strangers with some of the people we've been close to for the longest time in a snap of a finger.


But that isn't exactly why I am writing down my thoughts here. The real reason is, I have to speak my mind, but there isn't anyone close by who can listen to what I have to say at this hour. Yep. It's 3 a.m.


You see, since the pandemic, it's been two years since I had the last real conversation of my life. With most of us working from home, chatting or online messaging has become the norm. How can you even call it the "new normal" when in fact it is the opposite? I mean, you stare at your computer monitor all day long with only the noise of your headphones plugged to your ear as your company. And nope. I don't have my fur babies with me. They are back home in my hometown as pets are not allowed where I live. And even if they are, they can't talk! And even if they listen, will they understand? Well, maybe yeah, a little, like sit, come here, or whatever word they are used to. But truth be told, we need social interaction for real, like in-person conversation, those times when you can see everybody's faces and their reactions to your not-so-exciting love story, or that boring vacation you've been to and so on and so forth.


So, I have learned to be a little creative. I have learned to write down my thoughts as if I were talking to a person, and so now you are reading this: a certified stranger in the cyberworld who somehow in his search for a word on Google landed on this page and now I am talking as if you are listening.


I don't know anything about you. I don't know how you look, if you are a man or a guy, a woman or a girl, or a member of the LGBT community. I totally know nothing about you but here you are reading about my thoughts that spill word for word onto this space in the cyberworld.


Well, I don't know your story, your name, your age, where you live, where you are, what you do for a living. But we've got one thing in common: We crave social interaction even in its subtlest form. We need to connect or we die. Alright, the last word was an exaggeration. But I bet you agree. This pandemic has affected us emotionally. It has actually made me more restless and pine for deep conversations at night, just like I used to do when the world was still normal. I mean, it was easier traveling back and forth from your place to another's place back then.


So, if you need to listen more to my thoughts, I'll share them with you. Maybe you just have to tell me more about yourself in the comments down below. And feel free to share your thoughts as well.


Going back to sleep now. I just took a pee when I wrote this. Yeah. That's me. When I wake up, it's hard going back to sleep, but I'm gonna try.


So, good night! Thanks for stopping by. 😉

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