Human interactions are the grassroots for sanity -at least for mine- and this pandemic has definitely pushed us all to the verge of insanity.
When you meet a person, your bodies exchange physical energy or "vibes", you can identify their smell, their way of walking, and even their mannerisms while speaking. But when you're forced to meeting the people you might spend the next 4 years with through a screen, everything changes, and long story short, they do not feel real.
Social media and online dating or making friends have been some of the things that have skyrocketed the most during the pandemic, as for the last 7 months we haven't been able to be more than 6 feet close to someone else. When you meet someone on Tinder, there are no strings attached and no responsibilities involved, which is great; the lack of pressure makes everything less stressful. But when you find yourself in a "virtual classroom" full of not people, but black squares with a name on them, things get pretty depressing (and awkward).
Personally, I enjoy being put in small breakout rooms (something I like to call a parallel multiverse to the big class) and getting some sort of human interaction, even if it's a black square speaking. Thinking what it could have been, how much more different this first college experience was supposed to be can be very saddening and frustrating, as of now I'm just grateful for those black squares that have given me the opportunity to meet a small part of them during a five-minute discussion, even if they don't feel real.
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