The desire to share is as natural a human desire as food and water. Not sharing won't literally kill you, but once you're at a certain level of

Maslow's Hierarchy

you'll basically do anything, claw your way to sharing; to be seen.

I think social media for a lot of us is this clawing. There are many other reasons why we turn to social media but this is one that relates to your post.

I remember when I first left the dorms and their full service cafeteria at

MSU

I was astounded to learn how much time you saved by not having to shop, cook, and do dishes. I could feel the difference between just hopping next door for a meal vs having to do all of the above. I wasn't prepared to live a life doing homework, socializing, classes, looking up music, AND cooking??! nah.

So I just ate out every day. Mostly at

Chipotle

.

Nowadays I've grown to tolerate cooking, even enjoying it sometimes. But my life-hack for this has been being in a longterm relationship and having someone to feed that I love. I could never justify the hours needed to cook, shop, clean to just feed myself. My standards weren't that high. 

Your post makes me think of sharing in a similar way. It's a very arduous task, and when done right requires a onramp time where both parties are emotionally invested and open to learning about the other.

It can be exhausting to do this everyday. Just like it's exhausting to eat out every meal, even though once in awhile going out for a meal is really, really, nice. With sharing it's so helpful to have a homebase. A place where you can share without all that effort. Where sharing is the norm. I've only seen this happen with longterm relationships: platonic and/or romantic.

Unfortunately the only kind of relationship I've been able to pull this off with are romantic ones. I just never could live with platonic relationships in the same way. Yet.

Welcome, 

quarterback

 !