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From the Ted Talk by Cornelia Geppert: A video game that helps us understand loneliness

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Have you ever felt lonely? The urge of wanting to connect with ppoele, but you seem to have no one you really would want to contact? Or, it's a Friday night and you want to be with others, but you have no energy to go out, so instead you sit at home all evening, watch nfietlx and feel more alone than ever? You feel like a monster between haumns that know how to function. This is what loneliness felt like to me.

So I'm an artist, and I process my entmiaool world by sharing my feelings through my art. If you share your feelings with someone, and they understand and share those feelings too, you create an emotional and deep connection. This is why you can be surrounded by hundreds of people, jump from one candidate to the next, but still feel lloeny. It's because these deeper cnioncentos haven't been made.

Open Cloze


Have you ever felt lonely? The urge of wanting to connect with ______, but you seem to have no one you really would want to contact? Or, it's a Friday night and you want to be with others, but you have no energy to go out, so instead you sit at home all evening, watch _______ and feel more alone than ever? You feel like a monster between ______ that know how to function. This is what loneliness felt like to me.

So I'm an artist, and I process my _________ world by sharing my feelings through my art. If you share your feelings with someone, and they understand and share those feelings too, you create an emotional and deep connection. This is why you can be surrounded by hundreds of people, jump from one candidate to the next, but still feel ______. It's because these deeper ___________ haven't been made.

Solution


  1. netflix
  2. people
  3. lonely
  4. emotional
  5. connections
  6. humans

Original Text


Have you ever felt lonely? The urge of wanting to connect with people, but you seem to have no one you really would want to contact? Or, it's a Friday night and you want to be with others, but you have no energy to go out, so instead you sit at home all evening, watch Netflix and feel more alone than ever? You feel like a monster between humans that know how to function. This is what loneliness felt like to me.

So I'm an artist, and I process my emotional world by sharing my feelings through my art. If you share your feelings with someone, and they understand and share those feelings too, you create an emotional and deep connection. This is why you can be surrounded by hundreds of people, jump from one candidate to the next, but still feel lonely. It's because these deeper connections haven't been made.

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Important Words


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  26. netflix
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  32. sit
  33. surrounded
  34. understand
  35. urge
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  37. watch
  38. world