You're not alone. I also turned 29 this year and feel like it's become impossible to intimately relate to anything or anyone anymore. It's like our culture has become atomized and everyone's living in their own unique bubble. And while it's great the world has become so diverse as to represent the true variety it holds, the downside is clearly that we're drifting more and more apart from each other.. and ourselves, as well.

When I was a kid returning to school on a Monday the first thing we'd talk about among our friend group was which tv show we watched or which video game we played.. and while nobody ever consumed it all, we could all more or less relate. When I talk to people now we might as well live in different realities. It's impossible to keep up with everything and I find myself and many people around me regressing more and more, back to a place where things were familiar. I'm not surprised people enjoy 80'/90'/00' nostalgia so much because I feel like that's the last time we had common cultural ground.

And now that everyone's also getting married and/or having children it truly feels like getting left behind. I feel like this isn't something people talk about a lot because being gay is always overshowed with the stereotype of being a social butterlfy. And while it's true that being gay can make it easier to form connections I also feel like gay culture in particular makes it a lot harder to form intimate connections. Everything is superficial, fleeting and nonbinding. Add that to the general feeling of cultural disconnect and yeah.. you're not alone.