Give us a chance to miss one another

Originally posted Sep 20 '09
"give us a chance to miss one another!"

So I confess I am a online addict.
I come home log on, check email, wander around facebook then log off, only to log back on moments later...
I have call waiting, caller ID and call answer home phone, text messages, cell phone, internet, emails, skype,blogs and facebook... In this day and age people have never been more accessible..
I have answered the phone only to have the person on the other end say "Oh I was going to leave a message"
How often when we find someone does not have a cell phone we look in horror and shock while uttering ...."you DON"T have a cell phone?????!" Good for you!

How is it that we think ourselves so interesting that we have to be so accessible? Are we a population of super heros that we have to be available at a moments notice?

Flash a signal in the sky and we come running! Today batman would just get a text message from the the mayor...
"dude need help thx" Bruce would excuse himself from the coffee shop where he was trying to pick up Lois Lane and text back while sipping his triple shot low fat half caff mocha trying to drive to the bat cave to do a quick change while quickly updating his facebook status to "Bruce Wayne rox the cape" and twitting about it on his iphone on the way to the emergency needing his assistance.

Just give us a chance to miss you already!
We email, no reply, we email again... text ... call ... leave messages...
what the heck would we do, the instant generation, if we had to resort to paper..
remember that stuff? it's what newspapers are made of if you don't read them online...

I read a book recently where the story depended on the letters written to one another as a form of keeping one another posted on how they were, what was new, what is happening in their lives.... what would happen if we then had to depend on this form of communication... we would be lost.
Forced to slow down and appreciate each other, appreciate how powerful words are, how valuable friendships are, how many times we say things we don't mean or mean to say things that get lost in all the senseless babble that happens oh so often.

I know I am slight hypocritical as I post this online.... but if I had a means to send each of you a letter I would.
I love getting mail, now that you can bank online, pay bills online, order anything under the sun online, write letters online, read newspapers and magazines online, and even date online what else do you need!?
Just get yourself a bigass computer and hunker in for a long winter indoors... The birth of the anti social individual who can't spell and expresses themselves using punctuation that resembles little happy faces or crying people.

Sound familiar? if it does GO OUTDOORS, meet with real people, have a conversation IN PERSON, play board games, read books, INTERACT with people, real life in person People. Not online people, not email people, messenger people, texty people, but real in person people...
and give us a chance to miss you!

until next time my friends