Every online booking we make is a missed opportunity for a small human connection.

Every online purchase.

Every self-service checkout.

Every meat purchase from the supermarket and not over the counter at the butcher.

Every googlemap search rather than asking a local.

Every train journey with our nose in our phone rather than striking up a conversation with the guy opposite.

Every card-tap rather than paying the fare to the bus driver.

Each of these missed opportunities for a small human connection may seem trivial.

But they add up.

Some of these small human connections could have turned in to insightful, moving, even profound conversations with a stranger.

Some of these strangers may have become friends.

How many humans now go through their day with no/next to no human to human interactions?

The less you interact with your fellow humans, the less you are able to. The less you think you want to. While your soul slowly dies inside.

Not every development for convenience sake is a win for humankind.

In fact.

Quite the opposite.