Wordle Brings Us Together
Let’s be honest, it’s a shitshow out there. There have been plenty of other times when we’ve declared the world a shitshow, and in retrospect, it wasn’t but we didn’t know that at the time. We couldn’t imagine a world where we would be in our third year of a pandemic, facing down a war, monkeypox, gun violence, inflation, and everything else I’m not going to write down because listing it out is depressing.
And as this article astutely points out: “It’s hard to converse in a straightforward way sometimes — but in their own small way, these games can make talking to each other easier.”
And, yeah, when the world is a shitshow, sometimes it’s nice to spend five minutes of your morning in the company of letters. And then check in with everyone to make sure they got the word, too.
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That’s lovely. I find my fellow Wordle players are all over the world, so our words are different at different times. It’s too confusing for me to check if others get the word. I need to find a Wordle player here. (Immediately I think of my sister or BIL – I must ask them.) I agree it’s important to find little moments of pleasure, and of connection.