Thoughts on Intellectual Isolation
I didn't even know this was a thing. The past few weeks have had me feeling uninspired with a number of sleepless nights. I'm currently writing this a few minutes past 3am after having a conversation with one of my friends about what's been keeping me up. I've been feeling intellectually isolated (in true millennial fashion, I googled very specific phrases of what i've been feeling, and that's the term the internet gave me for it). Intellectual isolation, at least in my case, is the feeling of craving more intellectually stimulating conversations with your peers. The feeling of wanting to talk to people who get you, don't judge and add insight to your thoughts. When you don't find those people or those types of conversations, you shut yourself in. I've been trying my best to integrate myself in social situations for the past couple of weeks in search of people with similar thoughts and interests. But even in just the inner circle of people I asso