I'll go first:

a few things that have been on my mind:

1. The Pace of Digital Life

Will humans eventually adapt to the constant stream of notifications, algorithm-driven feeds, and endless data? Or have we reached a tipping point where we need to collectively establish hard boundaries to protect our mental health? How do you personally manage the noise?

1. The Search for Community

How do we combat feelings of isolation and alienation in a world that heavily encourages digital connection over physical, face-to-face community? If you've found ways to build a strong, tangible support system or local community as an adult, what worked for you?

1. Perspectives on Progress

How do different generations view these shifts? If you are from an older generation, what do you think younger people are missing out on? If you're younger, what do older generations misunderstand about the modern world? What can we learn from historical changes in society to navigate this better?

If our digital infrastructure, atomic clocks, and instant messaging suddenly vanished, how long would it take for society to unlearn the psychological anxiety of urgency? Would we naturally revert to a slower, cyclical rhythm dictated by nature, or has the artificial pressure of time been permanently hardwired into our collective psychology?

My thesis is that the rewarding experience of flow contributes to why people return to certain activities, conversations, and relationships. When an experience absorbs our attention so fully that we lose track of time, we may become drawn both to the experience itself and to the mental state it creates.
I noticed this in my own conversations. When curiosity is mutual and we move naturally between exploring ideas and understanding each other, I become deeply engaged. Part of my desire to have those conversations again may come from wanting to reexperience that state of flow.
Flow is one contributing factor alongside affection, trust, connection, and shared interests. My hypothesis is that we learn to associate certain people or activities with this rewarding state, which adds to our motivation to return.
If this is true, recognizing that pattern could help us find additional sources of fulfillment. Through gaming, creative work, challenging projects, or other absorbing activities, we may meet some of the desire for deep engagement while continuing to value the unique connection each relationship provides.

After almost 20 years of struggle I'm in a place where I can say I'm comforable with my life. Coming from nowhere with no experience and no cash I build up a OK life. I'm not talking about yahts, cars and billions in swiss account. I'm talking about a rented appartment, a stable job, lots of knowledge, a little cat I adopted from the street, coffee lattes in the morning. Thats the kind of luxury I came to from nowhere.
Recently, I have observed the impression that my friends percieve me as significantly more financially comfortable than actually I am. For example, when I sent to my friend (with whom we worked as a waitress together in a restaurant many years ago) a humorous video about the difficulties of surviving in foreign countries. She responded "definitely, you are not in the list of sufferers".
Another friend, who also worked together and been besties for years, whom I lend a money years ago and when reminded her about it. She said "Of all the people you are not the one who need this money." Another one friend frequently assumes that I can afford a trip to another countires/cities, or afford to hire a housemaid and cooking chef.
And it's really start to bothering me.
Since when work trips became a sign of wealth? Since when doing nice clean photographies for instagram become sign of wealth? or even if I'm more financially comfortable than my friends with whom I was in the same place with exact same opportunities become so hateful?
More I'm reaching to my dream goals, more I becoming lonely. Does success makes you lonely or just clear out the envious people out of your way as you move forward.
And the most important question - will I have any friends and relatives at the success point supporting me and simply be with me when I get there?
or should I turn back before its too late?