A mobile game advertisement made me think about it.
“Feeling loneliness? Try this method to lighten your heart.”
A mobile game showed me this advertisement.
(TikTok, apparently.)
So I started thinking about it psychologically.
What kind of short video would begin if I clicked it?
“Try lifting the corners of your mouth.”
— Ah, the old facial-feedback theory.
“Stand up and stretch.”
— If we’re talking about autonomic regulation, fair enough.“Think about someone important to you.”
— Careful. That approach can backfire.
Loneliness is an unsettling feeling.
Or perhaps more precisely:
it is the anxiety that one might be lonely.
Loneliness is a strangely hooked word.
Truly lonely people may not even be able to think of the word itself.
So perhaps,
the very ability to think
“I might be lonely”
already means one is not entirely lonely.
After all,
the thought itself contains the word “might.”
For the moment,
the temporary anxiety of
“I might be lonely”
had disappeared.
In that sense, my heart had become lighter.
Whether this obeys the law of conservation of mass can go to hell.
Thank you, advertisement.
