According to the results of the Harvard Happiness Research, a person must establish healthy relationships with his/her own kind for lasting happiness. Because human relations are also an element that naturally meets the basic needs of a person such as love, affection and belonging. These values, which maintain the spiritual balance of the human being, can only be developed by establishing relations with one's own species on a human axis. As a matter of fact, individuals who distanced themselves from each other with social distance during the pandemic process began to complain of boredom, depressive problems and unhappiness. Social distancing was necessary and a protective factor, but it nevertheless weakened human relations.
People realize the value of the opportunities they have when they lose it, right? It is only after we lose that we realize how big a void the people we love, the places we love, the jobs we love fill in our lives… Think about the days before we met the epidemic… The times between work and home, visits to friends and relatives, tea conversations, events that marked the night, weddings, engagements. It is only these days that we realize the gains that are brought to our lives by enjoying special ceremonies, enjoying the sun and air, and walking freely.
The mask, social distance and isolation that entered our lives during the pandemic process, I think, will become a part of our lives over time, this is a very dangerous situation! In other words, when the pandemic process ends, people will remain under the influence of the situation they are accustomed to and will minimize human relations. However, human beings need to establish closeness with their own kind, and if this need is not met, mental and social problems will increase. When relations with relatives, friends and neighbors weaken, people will begin to see each other as a potential risk and danger, and they will almost become robots.
Individuals, who were dragged into a spiral of intense fear over the concept of virus and social distance, were drawn into the trap of individuation. The fact that working at home, attending classes from home and e-commerce has gained importance during the pandemic process, and many jobs have become sustainable from home inevitably affected people's habits. And in a process where digital life is frequently spoken, individuals were pushed into a lane they never imagined. They became lonely by minimizing social relations, this situation caused a disconnection and alienation in the inner worlds of the individuals over time, and depressive problems began to increase.
Attachment and intimacy are as essential as eating and drinking, and if this need is not met, we will not have a chance to live a balanced and healthy life. As a matter of fact, people have realized that they cannot live alone on a deserted island during the pandemic process, that is, they cannot be Robinson Kruse, even if they have everything, they cannot live a life without people. However, the concept of social distance, which entered our lives, triggered our fears and got ahead of our needs. People see their neighbors, whom they greet before, as a danger with the potential to infect them, and they have begun to move away. This situation can naturally have lasting effects and people may not be able to maintain their human relations on the axis of trust even after the pandemic process is over. In other words, the side effects of the process we live in may continue for a long time… We will experience and see all these in the future.