Life is funny. You would think that as long as human beings have been on the planet we would be a lot better at being…well…humans. We as humans have made incredible strides in the past 100 years. We’ve harnessed the power of flight; we’ve completely eradicated several pandemic diseases; we’ve even created a seamless global communication platform that connects people from every corner of the world, instantly.

Why then do so many people feel isolated? Disconnected? Even desperate?

Henry David Thoreau put it this way:

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

In an age where technology allows us to communicate face to face with people on the other side of the planet all from a device that fits in our pockets, more and more people are finding that while they are surrounded by technological magic, they struggle with the most basic parts of being a functioning human being