Exploring the Emotional Shortage in a World That’s Always “On” Let’s start with a question: When was the last time someone really listened to you?Not just nodded along while waiting to talk. Not a double-tap on a sad post. But someone—maybe a friend, a stranger, a coworker—who held space for your experience, without rushing to fix it, debate it, or reframe it with their own story. It’s rare, right? That’s because we’re living in what could be described as an empathy drought. Despite all our progress, all our access, all our supposed “connectedness,” something vital is drying up. We’ve become experts at consuming each other’s lives, but somehow worse at being there for each other.And it shows.The Performance vs. the PracticeEmpathy hasn’t disappeared completely—it’s just been distorted. These days, it's often more of a performance than a practice. We know...