My brother just sent this to me and I wanted to share it with you...
"A friend shared something too good not to pass on. It hits home with me because I tend to sometimes think our personal relationships are suffering a bit, even in this day and age of all the electronic media that supposedly brings us closer together. I can’t help but think that Facebook and our qwerty keyboard phones are actually pulling us farther apart rather than bringing us together. When was the last time we actually heard all these friends’ voices? Maybe we ought to pick up that phone this weekend and dial them instead …"
The Paradox of Our Age:
We have bigger houses but smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicines, but less healthiness; We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour. We built more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication; We have become long on quantity, but short on quality. These are times of fast foods but slow digestion; Tall man but short character; Steep profits but shallow relationships. It's a time when there is much in the window, but nothing in the room.
—the 14th Dalai Lama
I have to agree. More people would rather talk on Facebook then in person.
Posted by: Jennifer | January 08, 2012 at 07:55 AM