Social Interaction is Vital | Daily Quote No. 97
The Stoic Seneca knew this thousands of years ago, we have forgotten...
‘Personal converse, though, and daily intimacy with someone will be of more benefit to you than any discourse.’
Seneca, Letter VI
Social interaction with another person on an intimate level (vulnerability and openness, not necessarily physical) is the most needed experience for a human. In this world of hyper-connectivity we are more and more disconnected. How is it that 2,000 years ago the Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote that ‘daily personal converse and intimacy will be of more benefit to you than any discourse.’ (by discourse he is referring to a lecture given by a philosopher), yet in the modern day we have drifted further from this? And, it looks as if things will continue to get worse.
Make it your mission to increase the frequency of which you have intimate conversations with people you trust.