Meetups in London
30 Aug
Meetup.com is an online community that connect people by some specific interest.
Do you like fishing, sewing, video games, walks in the park, chocolate ice cream? For all of this (almost) there is a meetup event right for you, where you can find people with your tastes, passions, obsessions and disorders.
Surprise surprise, London is the first city in the world in terms of number of meetup group.
How come? That’s simple: huge city, coming and going people every day, crisis of values such as family and friendship, loneliness.
Easy.
So loneliness generates meetups, but you know? Meetups generate loneliness.
This is why in most Meetups (“most”, not all of them) people are not friends, but “meetup friends“. So they prefere to meet each other mainly inside a comfortable, secure meetup event.
Only this way they are allowed to swap from a conversation partner to another one every time the conversation is getting a little bit complicated: too personal, too slow, too insignificant.
In this kind of speed meeting event your life starts stinking after 5 minutes you’ve introduced yourself. After 10 minutes the guy in front of you is probably thinking about what excuse he can tell to skip that old conversation and to know a new, fresh story.
Yet there is something positive, and it is the euphoria that almost all participants have, it’s thinking and studying how to communicate, how to introduce yourself, it’s a challenge in how you can get a “Yes, we’ll meet again”, it’s a rush-summary of ten or hundred life stories in a couple of hours, it’s the equality and the difference between you and a Chinese guy who might accidentally choosed the same city, the same event, the same evening.
Nothing more grotesque, and nothing more fascinating at the same time.
A human television: infinite faces, infinite stories.
Then you go home, satisfied about all the new stories you’ve known, all the new people you’ve met.
You probabily go back any time you’ll confuse your freedom with loneliness.
Don’t worry: a lot of meetup friends are always waiting for you.


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