What type of heartbreak is this?

Thought No. 2

I’ve spent a good 10 minutes titling and re-titling this piece. I was thinking about the concepts of creating and consuming and whether you can carry out both at the same time. During my day job, I analyse and manage contracts. Consuming, creating, consuming then creating again. It’s a constant balance of both. Although I can’t do both, well at the same time.

Thinking and hijacked. My thoughts were hijacked by an old memory that is now lost. Hijacked by the urge to check a social media account. After this moment, I started thinking about how heartbreak is experienced differently depending on the generation. How my natural thought was stolen by the experience of sadness.

The deepest heartbreak I’ve ever felt is grief. Although experiencing loss whilst one is still physically present aches differently. I don’t know the scientific background behind this. I do know that I opened ChatGTP on my phone and asked it the following questions.

• A gen z heartbreak?

• A millennial heartbreak?

• A traditional heartbreak?

Here’s what it responded.

I don’t know the purpose of this thought, although if anything I hope it recognises the difference in types of pain. There is so much glorification of acting unaffected by pain in our gen z cusp millennial generation.

Traditional modes were raw, aching and undeniable real. If you show that now, you may be a weak one. Far from nonchalant and that’s sad. The experience now stains our virtual world as much as our real world. That stain must be erased like an archived photo.

This was a thought on a Friday night. I thought I would share the little moment I had with AI. Good friend it is, the robot cutie haha.

Christiana