the happiness of closing all the tabs when ur work is done

miss my college friends so much, i don’t think i will ever get to meet them all again

indiranagar is where you go on dates. koramangala is where you fall in love. hsr is where you move in together. not set in stone, of course.

Eating can be individual, but meals have always been communal. Imtiaz Ali often captures loneliness through a simple image: someone eating alone. It hits because we’re wired for it. For our ancestors, sharing food was survival. It built trust, coalition and culture. The shared meal was humanity’s first social network, a recurring dose of belonging. But somehow, Imtiaz Ali’s lonely, on-the-go eaters are becoming the norm. You can see them around, trading connection for convenience. Once used for elderly widows, solo-eating is now embodied by the 24-year-old living away from home, eating dinner beside a laptop while grinding through life. In the US, 26% adults report eating meals alone, over 50% higher than in 2003. Infact, 60-70% meals are accompanied by a mobile screen or a desktop. We watch people’s lives through stories instead of hearing them across a table. One of humanity’s simplest and most repeatable technologies for connection is quietly disappearing. What 2nd order effects this may have?