hey karen how are you
i'm pretty good how are you i'm great
i love that you have a glasses thing
yeah horizontal and vertical
yep i think for glasses oh you do yeah
so we were just talking a little while
ago that you know you live in this
environment in this country where we all
are seeking social relationships
but sometimes it gets really hard and
you share
you know why is it why has it been hard
for you
i guess it's hard for me uh when people
move around you know i have moved around
quite a bit i was born in india
around the age of 13 i came to us it was
a big change for me at the time because
i lived in a village in india and i came
to cupertino a bay area in u.s
massive change
uh and when i say
massive change i have not i had not seen
internet before coming to us oh wow so i
did not know what internet was so it was
not only social but even like yeah
technology it was a it was a massive
change of how world moved i did not know
how it worked i just sort of observed
and i
and personally i was a shy kid quiet kid
they're very introverted
and i'm the only child in the family the
only son and only child so my
conservative indian family is like
very overprotective of me so i was a
very innocent guy at that time so um you
know when i came to us i spent five
years here they went by high school went
by
around 2018 we decided to go back to
india
because my dad had a business there
and it was also cheaper to do education
there than in us and i was like i hadn't
decided what what i wanted to do so i
agreed to it i got into a good college
and in india
and i did my degree and i worked one
year there
and uh around the age of 23 in 2019 i
came back to us
so
everything and that's when the lockdown
happened you know
and so all of this time my social circle
structure was pretty rough i mean uh the
few friends i had in india until the age
of 13 moved on yeah in five years i was
in us and when i went to cal when i went
back to india in 2014 for my degree
people here moved on because
you know they moved on with their lives
uh with the degree and everything and
when i came back people in india moved
on so basically i've since i haven't
been uh stable for a very long at one
place
uh people around me moved on and i sort
of was left around with the idea that i
don't have any
specific group i think what you're
saying karen is so important yeah all of
us struggle with finding the right
groups of people and even when we found
them right how do you keep them
like that's what happened with you right
yeah the that's uh that's something
that's that's pretty hard like
i i do have some right now a few groups
of people but then you also i've also
noticed that there are a lot of
introverted people that just don't want
to go outside they want to live alone
inside
um
but the only way you can keep a group of
people around you is by constantly
approaching
by constantly approaching people and
then coming out of your shell
essentially that's the only way to keep
a group of people around yeah
i'm so glad you you know come on come
out of your comfort zone and you came to
this event yeah that is just amazing and
i'm so glad that you know i think being
lonely is such a common problem right in
a crowded world yeah it's true it's a
because we have a lot more you know we
have a lot of our retention given to our
technology
and social media
and
movies video games and all that
it's hard to
talk to other people especially when
you know um
this is the hard part is to have a
common interest not everybody goes to
sports events not everybody likes the
idea
of
of
basically going to bars and clubs
everybody does that but you have to find
something in common
some people like going hiking going to
strolls nature
some people like traveling so they talk
about that
but uh it's important to
step outdoors and talk to people around
you
could be anything thank you so much
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