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That was the familiar lesson of time. Everything changes and nothing changes.
Places don’t matter to people any more. Places aren’t the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have at least one foot in the great digital nowhere.
As far as I can see, this is a problem with living in the twenty-first century. Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie the economy to our emotions, to make us feel like we need more by making us want things we never needed before. We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel too old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren’t photoshopped and filtered.
Ah. I am, I realise, in a bad mood.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”’
She is on Citalopram for depression. ‘It spaces me out, but I need that.’
