In the world today, 3 letters makes the difference, between “lol” and “huh?”.
Today with all the amazing and new technologies that are coming about people were slowly losing the ability to have face to face conversations. Now, it is completely lost, completely, I have realized everyone I have spoken to in the last 24hrs have been over Black Berry or Facebook chat.
My closet relatives I speak to over these mediums, luckily I have not lost my parents to this very impersonal manner of communication.
Coming to terms with this direction that the world is taking has made me think and miss a lot of the old times where we could have felt a connection with someone during a conversation that held depth and meaning. Over a pot of tea or a cold ice coffee, relating the day’s events and getting a chance just to download your passed hours.
A laugh was genuine, where tears would trickle down their faces when their cheek muscles burned from exhaustion. A hand to the other person’s hand touching them while you are telling them to stop you can’t laugh anymore because your ribs muscles hurt.
Tears meant something and you felt the physical support of another person, their arms holding you and a shoulder to cry on was not in the figurative sense, but an actual shoulder and head and body and soul was present while you were trying to hold on to sanity.
Anger was felt and you were heard and seen…not…. “I (broken heart emoticon) u. dnt txt me evr”....Seeing the tick and the “r” on top of it made your world because you are there thinking to yourself, “oh yeah! That bastard read it.” Being upset with someone is just not as it used to be, nothing is ever worked out completely face to face. Apologies don’t mean anything anymore when all our communication is over some hand held devise. The human element is lost completely, we allow these man made devises to separate in many different ways than bring us closer and “connect” us.
I am tired of hearing “but I bbmed you!” as the excuse of why you did not tell me you were home safe and having me worried like a dog waiting to hear from you. It is the most impersonal manner to carry on a successful relationship or friendship.
Me coming to this did not take much, for example, I was hitting some hard times with my employers and decided to peel myself out of my comfort zone (my room) and go to my sisters room to carry on a conversation. All I was getting from this face to face interaction was, ah huh, yeah, pfft, while in the distant background PING, PING, PING, was blaring away. And yes she was more interested in getting back her response in time than listening to me.
But ofcourse when I went back to my room, I got a PING myself, “did you open the cereal?”
WTH? ….. REALLY?......
Good luck and hats off to those people who find love and true friendship these days. I don’t know what a who is real or fake anymore, everything is all digitally inclined. Russian roulette by binary.
I was guilty of the same thing, but I am in the minority of people hoping and wishing for just some normal heart to heart talks and experiences with people on a one on one basis.
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