I've never been to a sea shore, so I romanticize it.

I think it’s better that way. Away from climate change, population bombs, and Chapri guys making reels Away from any real issues, basically. And yeah, I’m selfish about it. I don’t want to know that society is going to collapse in the near future, that global warming will leave us starving, or that technology will render us helpless. The aesthetics of the seashore are calming and soothing waves of blue, clear waters.

I like to believe in the saying that "reality IS disappointing, so we create our versions of it". The one where the vast stretch of blue sky touches the endless seas

It was, and it will always be disappointing. It is visible in Thomas Hardy's poem, The Darkling Thrush. On December 29, 1900, he wrote as if technology and industrialization would wipe away the very soul of human nature. Well, I don’t know about humanity back then, but certainly we aren’t that bad compared to now. (Or are we? :|)

I’d like to take my chances and say we aren’t that bad. Yeah, shit happens once in a while (quite a lot, actually), but we are resilient. And stupid. But hopeful nonetheless. We are living in one of the most peaceful eras of human existence. And yes, that is true even if there is a COVID-19 pandemic, increased nuclear threats, an ongoing Russia-Ukrainian war, or the Israel Hamas War. But as Cooper says in Interstellar, “we’ll find our way, professor; we always have.”