You don't feel it till you close the last app. I don't know what it is for you, but you'll know what I mean. Lonely. You don't feel lonely till you close the last app on your phone. Then it hits you. You see, it only hurts when you stop. It's like running. Trying to find people. Trying to find a scene. Trying to find that thing you don't even know what to call. But you're always looking. Always looking for it. There's always a hallucination about a red mark on the notifications icon. Finding new people around you. Refreshing news feed. Hold on a bit. Oops. Sorry. Nothing here. Like a mailman walking away leaving you at the door, holding it open for a miracle to walk in and understand how you feel. Maybe someone did. Maybe someone still does. But it's never enough is it? No one is all you need. People aren't islands. People are lifeboats, holding on for a while. Pulling down on little screens once again hoping to run into a bit of land. *** Are
By Ted Malanda The human resource hiring process favours people with good mouth and is nasty for introverts. Half the time, it confuses optics and finely brewed hot air for ability. Did you watch the interview that ended Biden's presidential campaign? Trump blew the old man out of the room. Biden could barely speak, or get a forceful sentence out of his mouth. HR would have hired Trump on the spot. A CNN political commentator later said, "After watching that debate, I'm convinced Biden can govern, but he can't run for office." Biden is one of those cursed workers who struggle with job interviews. They stammer, sweat and look so miserable because they know the interview ended barely a minute when they walked into the room. And yet they are pretty solid workers. It takes a very keen and discerning mind to see ability in that nervous, blubbering "idiot" sweating at the front of the table, taken in as they are with the hot air that walzed out of the boardr