Is Our Personal Life Becoming Joyless ?

It sure does. People need to be more caring and genuinly concerned about others. It is lacking in todays society. Most people are so self-centered and only concerned about themselves.

I partly agree that what you say holds true for an increasingly large part of the population, but it seems to me to be less of a "choice" than you suggest. I think the disconnection and social miserliness we see is the result of people working SO hard, and SO many hours to "get ahead" that they have very little left over, at the end of the day, to put into forming genuine connections. I say this, because I see it in some friends, and I have also experienced it myself. About a year after I quit the "corporate success rat race" I realized how much time I spent with people who felt "relevant to me," rather than just rushing through everything, in search of "the next." I think people's efforts to "have it all" often causes their relationships to suffer.

Is this so wide spread, then? I know that many people here are work work working so much that they forget that they are human. I plead guilty, myself.

I think it depends on each person's perception. Two very different people can go to the same party/event/get together, one will be open and friendly and willing to be intimate and have a great time and make many friends, connecting with others on many levels, while the other person will sit in the corner and be lonely and maybe have a few mediocre conversations with others who are also not happy people. Each will go home with a different memory of the evening. It's all relative. Life is what you make of it.

yes i think you are right in this era the personal life is zero beacuse every one is busy in there own work thats why we cant share are views to each other but thank god for my lot. in this we can share our views and make our life joy ful

I have to disagree with you from my perspective. It might depend on where you live. In my small town, people sit on their front porches and talk to people walking on the sidewalk. The local coffee shop is alway busy with people sitting and talking. I do have friends who have moved and say that is what they miss the most. Walking down the street smiling at a stranger and saying Good Morning.

No. Sorry but I disagree with everything you are are saying all I can say is if this is how you see life how sad for you. I am not one of the "we" you refer to.

this is the paradox of life. the more people there are around us, the more that we are not talking sensibly anymore. people become all the more busy with so many things to do, instead of workload becoming less due to the presence of so many people around, the workload becomes insurmountable. this is the reason why people do not indulge anymore so much on heart to heart talks. this is difficult because, with life becoming more and more complex, there is an even more pronounced need for heart to heart talks within the family.

I know what you mean. When I was younger, friends used to get together and just hang out. We might listen to music, or just talk. I have very few friends that have time for this kind of thing anymore, it seems like they are always busy and never have time to talk.

I have just graduated from university and start to look for a job. During the few days meeting different people and going to different places, the only feeling I have got is just as exactly as what you have expressed above.Each one pay more attention to himself without caring what the other's feeling only if they wanna to take advantage the one, they will show some hypocritical warm.

No i do not think so,every thing is geting well,i enjoy my life now.The modern life give us so mony new things.