Over the past year, something kept coming up in my conversations — with friends, with couples, with people I would meet even during very social events. No matter the context, many of them would share the same feeling: they felt disconnected. Lonely, even. They could not quite find a natural, genuine way to meet people and form meaningful connections in the world as it exists today. That observation landed hard. Because it echoed something I had been sitting with for years — a question I had n...

Over the past year, something kept coming up in my conversations — with friends, with couples, with people I would meet even during very social events. No matter the context, many of them would share the same feeling: they felt disconnected. Lonely, even. They could not quite find a natural, genuine way to meet people and form meaningful connections in the world as it exists today. That observation landed hard. Because it echoed something I had been sitting with for years — a question I had n...