My Modern life ...

I can’t tell if it’s me or just the people close to me but these things are getting harder. I don’t know if it’s our new modern life. Everything was getting bigger. The cost of education, our salaries and our need for materials, the way that we raise our children all have gotten bigger, with presumption that it is better. Our appetite have grown, our need to win can’t be subdued and our expectations stretching farer and farer from the truth of our daily lives. But there seems to be one buck in this trend, our families, our support network, and our friend groups seem to be getting smaller. Yeah, people in generation and younger have all sorts of devices and websites to communicate. All though we can conquer the digital divide, we still need connection, face to face, in person, I can smell what you had dinner, time with other people. I read an interesting article in the news the recently, almost half of Americans are on mood altering drugs. So… most of us can’t cope. Is that want I’m meant to gleam from that nugget of information? In the same vein, there was an article in the New York Times talking about there is a crisis mental health center in college campus. The article made it seem like they are in triage all the time …

We don’t need bigger … We don’t need faster … We just need better. But it seems like we don’t truly understand what that means. I think we simply need to connect in person, with people more… We, people can literally be answer to this modern sense of a less personable world. We are social creatures; we have to make sure that our lives reflect that.

And this time of year is a perfect time to practice it. We most go forth and love, hug, and kiss our way thru this world.