My friends and I get together once or twice a week to hang out and play games and all that, but almost all year we've been doing online shit. For a while, we went back to face to face, but every time there's a scare in the news they run off and go back to online. I was fine with this for a while, but after 8 months, I've had enough and decided to take a stand and not do online anymore, and will only get together when we do things in person.
I'm unmarried and don't have much contact with the family, so for a few weeks I've been feeling the isolation hit me more and more. I need advice, pedes. I really believe going along with this lockdown bullshit only perpetuates it to keep going, but I'm at a loss. Do I start hanging out with them again online, or do I continue to hold my ground? It's getting tougher to tell what the right thing to do here is.
I feel you man. My own circumstances have led me to be further and further isolated due to lockdowns and work bs. Taking a stand is important but humans are social creatures and sustained loneliness/isolation isn't healthy and you gotta take care of your mental health in order to fight for what you believe in. I think it's ok to hang out with them online in order to find that connection. Maintaining your sanity doesn't mean you aren't "serious", it just means that you respect yourself and are doing what you gotta do to survive this chaos. Be well fren