Connected but Disconnected

Noticing what is going on in this world today and becoming self-aware is one hell of a concept to grasp. The world is ever-changing and each day something new happens to our world as well as ourselves. Technological advances are made. Earth’s weather is changing due to climate shifts. Aside from all that is going on around us, we have seemed to become disconnected when connections are right at our finger tips.

I used to talk with my dad all the time about what it was like growing up in the 50’s and 60’s. “Things were much different back then,” he would say. He truly does believe in the advances we have made, but not the way we have started communicating within the last 15 years. We all realize email, texting, DMing, and snapchatting are the mainstream ways of communication, but why did we have to lose the sense of personal connection. That going a small portion out of your day to say hello to someone and have a short conversation. That treating people as followers and numbers rather than quality relationships.

Humans thrive on interaction. And it’s even easier now to get it being that we can use our fingers to like, comment, and connect from afar. But being the person to reach out and make quality time or a quality connection goes that much farther in our impact.

Being a good neighbor, helping out someone who needs it, or even making a conversation with a random person just to ask how their day was going can make all the difference in the quality of life. Sure money can play its part in how comfortable we live, but our quality of life, I feel, should be based on the interactions with others we have. It’s not hard if you just reach out and give an authentic feel to who you are. People love authenticity. But we still have to create it.

There is no excuse for not being who you weren’t meant to be. Humans were meant to interact. But now more than ever we are always searching for the most attractive and authentic thing or person; yet we aren’t creating the most we possibly can. If we just go out and say hello to people, then who the hell knows what the possibilities are. It’s up to you which you choose to do. But think about who you want to be once your gone. It may change, it may not. The goal is to get you thinking about whether you are creating the most meaningful relationships.

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