Dear Sarasa:

You remind me of a girl I communicated with here long ago, she was 15, I think. It was way before the pandemic, but like you perhaps, she spent most/ almost all of her waking hours with virtual friends, online. She had a relationship with a boy she never met, a boy who lived far away,  and there was never a concrete plan to meet him, just a… one day we will meet.

She was so up and down about that relationship, so much drama was going on in that virtual relationship, in her mind and heart… and yet, nothing was going on in real life, other than her sitting in front of the computer for many hours.

She was living with her parent or parents, going to school, but had no relationships with family or with school peers, no social life in real life. It was just her… and the computer.

anita