Deeper Conversations, Deeper Connections

As a popular TikTok musician once sang in 2021: “Hey Siri, what's the meaning of la-la-la life, la-la-la life?” The AI voice assistant, unsurprisingly, responded to my own inquiry with the default “I’m sorry, I don’t understand that question.”

What about asking people? As Harborfields Junior Sage Lindemann is quoted as having said, “Asking deeper questions can allow for you to understand your friends better.” As my friend Becky Pashman (HF Sophomore) stated when I asked her about the purpose of our shared existence as she played a mobile game, “I’m busy right now.”

The sociological consensus is that when individuals ask vulnerable questions that prompt introspection, it strengthens the emotional bonds between them. Senior Julia Puolis, with whom I spoke to for the first time, claims that the meaning of life is “whatever you make it and how you want it to be, as long as you’re happy, you’re chilling.”

Maybe instead of trying Alexa or ChatGPT when we get the philosophical urge to question mortality, we should ask our fellow human beings.