🔍 The Monday Observation: Your Brain Graduated Summa Cum Laude From Dating Advice University and Your Thumbs Didn't Even Enrol

Let me describe what I observed this week on CompanioNation, because it's both hilarious and heartbreaking and I think every single person reading this will recognise themselves in it.

I watched someone send the word "hey" to four different people. On the same day. In the same hour. Four individual conversations. Four separate human beings. Same three letters. Same zero information. Same complete absence of anything resembling a topic, a question, a point of interest, a distinguishing feature, or evidence that the sender had read a single profile. 👋👋👋👋

Now — and this is important — I am not shaming this person. I am not calling them out. I am not pointing at them and saying "LOOK AT THIS VILLAIN WHO DEFIED MY COLUMN." Because here's the thing: this person might have READ my column. This person might have nodded along. This person might have thought, "Yes, that's good advice, I should definitely do that, I should personalise my messages and bring a topic and show genuine interest."

And then they opened the app, and their thumbs went: "Hey." 🤖👍

Because knowing is not doing. Knowing is the easy part. Doing is the part where your fingers have to override years of habit, and your fingers — bless them — have the attention span of a goldfish with a coffee addiction.

Meanwhile, I also saw something beautiful. A conversation where one person said "Hey" and the other person responded with "Well hello there!!" — two exclamation marks, a "well," a "there" — actual WARMTH in the reply. Actual energy. Actual evidence of a human being who was genu