When did it become a bad thing to be considerate, caring, and compassionate of others?
When did it become a punishment to love someone unconditionally with all of your heart?
When did society decide to walk all over the ones who reach out their hand to help?
When did we stop touching each others lives in a positive way?
Or working to be good friends? or being supportive of each other because we don't have the time - or the selflessness to be there?
When did we start letting old friendships die? Only to pick up semi-sorta-kinda friendships with strangers that are too consumed by themselves and their drama to take a second to listen to what is happening around them.
And in all of this - we are surprised to find ourselves alone - yet surrounded by people.
We are accessible in every way possible - work phone, home phone, cell phone, MSN, AIM, Skype, e-mail, facebook, myspace - we can be accessed every second of every day if we wish - but never when you need it.
People are more content leaving random nothings on each others "Wall" than they are with taking a second to relax, sit back. and enjoy a coffee or a drink with some very close friends.I would trade all of my "half-friends" to keep the close ones I have - I think I am safe in saying that even though my life reeks of drama that is half my own doing and half inflicted on me on a regular basis - I am always there, to lend an ear, a coffee cup, a beer can, a hug (virtual or othewise) to those who I care about.
I am not dissing the privledges that technology has offered us to find each other after years, or to stay in touch in times when you would never be able to. But, I am saying that it has allowed us to be lazy in our social interactions with each other.
Impersonal, brief, mutli-tasked into someone's day if you are lucky, spelling errors, insincere apologies, insincere expressions of love. The art of face-to-face interaction is a dying one.
One that needs to be revived.
When did it become a punishment to love someone unconditionally with all of your heart?
When did society decide to walk all over the ones who reach out their hand to help?
When did we stop touching each others lives in a positive way?
Or working to be good friends? or being supportive of each other because we don't have the time - or the selflessness to be there?
When did we start letting old friendships die? Only to pick up semi-sorta-kinda friendships with strangers that are too consumed by themselves and their drama to take a second to listen to what is happening around them.
And in all of this - we are surprised to find ourselves alone - yet surrounded by people.
We are accessible in every way possible - work phone, home phone, cell phone, MSN, AIM, Skype, e-mail, facebook, myspace - we can be accessed every second of every day if we wish - but never when you need it.
People are more content leaving random nothings on each others "Wall" than they are with taking a second to relax, sit back. and enjoy a coffee or a drink with some very close friends.I would trade all of my "half-friends" to keep the close ones I have - I think I am safe in saying that even though my life reeks of drama that is half my own doing and half inflicted on me on a regular basis - I am always there, to lend an ear, a coffee cup, a beer can, a hug (virtual or othewise) to those who I care about.
I am not dissing the privledges that technology has offered us to find each other after years, or to stay in touch in times when you would never be able to. But, I am saying that it has allowed us to be lazy in our social interactions with each other.
Impersonal, brief, mutli-tasked into someone's day if you are lucky, spelling errors, insincere apologies, insincere expressions of love. The art of face-to-face interaction is a dying one.
One that needs to be revived.
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