Can you hear me now?

Why is it that with all our means of contact, with all our emails, chatting, phone calls, texting and phones that include all these means to keep in touch, leave us feeling alone.

I am not speaking soley of my emotion right now. I simply was faced with this question in my American Lit class this morning.

I'm not going to tell you...... actually I want to.

People need people!

We are born for relationship building! We need to miss people, know people, and love people. We need face time!!! There is no emotion in your fingertips, and worse than that, we expect truth to come to us in a matter of seconds. Where we disect the soundless jumble of words and suck them dry until we have no relationships with our friends, but with a 3" peice of plastic.

Think about it. When you are angry with your cyber friend and you both have your texting swords out, what ends up breaking? Your "relationship" with that person, or your phone?

What happens when face time happens?
Friend1: "Hey! How are you?"
Friend2: "Hey! I'm good how are you?"
Friend1: "I'm good how are you?"
Friend2: "You just asked me that..."

It doesn't mean anything. You don't mean it, so why would they answer with their actual feelings? And forbid they should actually begin to tell you about their day, you'd have to actually have a conversation. Actually care.

I am getting a little amped up right now so I'll just leave with this.

Next time you ask someone how they're doing. And they say good. Ask why they are doing good.

Caring... It's a good habit to get into.