The dormant person feeling is a feeling I find myself having on the Internet often. Casually browsing the Internet, I find myself reading through threads and websites that don’t look like they’ve been updated since 2009, or 2010, or ${currentYear - 10}. Profiles that haven’t posted in so long either.
When I see just how long ago their last activity was, it gives me the feeling, which I can only describe as a mix of concern, curiosity, and empathy. In my head, I go “I wonder how they are doing now”, and “are they alive and well?”. Sometimes I find myself “investigating” them or looking them up to see if they are still alive just so I can satiate this feeling of mine.
Do other people experience the dormant person feeling too? Is it wrong to have such a feeling? But hey, if I feel the dormant person feeling, it does show that I do have empathy for strangers, a good quality, I suppose.
I do too. Since we are also talking about musicians, I remember this song very close to me, called Meille Feuille by stepic, which I was kind of engrossed into, during my teen years. There’s a lot of dark stuff from my teens, and music kind of eased the painful, stressful youth I had. When I tried looking for the artist, they disappeared after 2017, I believe. And the Twitter bio says - “stepic is dead”. That was actually not something I expected to read. And it has affected me in a bad way, I think.