Love Begets Love
We live in an instant society. Everything must happen quickly and if it doesn’t we immediately get frustrated. A friend of mine sent me an email that literally had me laughing out loud. It was geared toward the 30 and older crowd and it talked about how we didn’t have microwaves. If we wanted to reheat something it went into the oven or on the stove. We didn’t have the cartoon network, if we wanted to watch cartoons we had to wait all the way until Saturday morning to see our favorite cartoons. I remember the family sitting down together to watch the Cosby show or people coming over just to visit and sit down and talk. I used to spend every day light hour (before the streets lights came on because I was NOT a fan of the switch that would be waiting if I made it home after they started to flicker! LOL!!!!) out on streets with my friends, using our imaginations to figure out how to spend our time and we had FUN!! Things were a lot slower back then, but if you think about it, things were more relationship and family oriented also.
Today, we live on our cell phones, eat because of microwaves, get irritated when we have to wait for more than a split second because we have been conditioned as a society to be impatient. When I want it, I want it right now. We have slowly become selfish and self centered. Life is about getting ahead, making sure my business is handled and if I have some time after that, I’ll see what I can do.
Relationships happen via text or email. Actually sitting down with someone to have a conversation must be scheduled weeks in advance and even then, we are very likely to cancel because everything else is more important. Even as I write this I am getting convicted because I do the same thing. We don’t know how to actually spend quality, face to face time with each other anymore. If we do manage to get together for a meal or coffee, our phones are going off, we have texts to respond to, we are checking email on our phones and not allowing ourselves a real moment to honestly sit down and talk. We are distracted, absentminded and like I said, self centered. We ask someone how they are doing, nod and smile, accept their ‘great thanks, how are you’ and in our minds, we have already moved on to the next subject or the thing we need to get from them without taking a quick second to look into their eyes and see if “great’ is actually how they are really doing.
The truth is, we need each other. We need relationships, people to lean on, support, love on us and give love to. We would not be able to survive without it. Let’s try to put our phones away, log off of the computer and spend time with actual people. Instead of having your head bent down as you walk texting, try looking up, smiling at someone as you pass by. You never know you may just make someone’s day. Love begets love….something to think about.
Peace Y’all
B
Today, we live on our cell phones, eat because of microwaves, get irritated when we have to wait for more than a split second because we have been conditioned as a society to be impatient. When I want it, I want it right now. We have slowly become selfish and self centered. Life is about getting ahead, making sure my business is handled and if I have some time after that, I’ll see what I can do.
Relationships happen via text or email. Actually sitting down with someone to have a conversation must be scheduled weeks in advance and even then, we are very likely to cancel because everything else is more important. Even as I write this I am getting convicted because I do the same thing. We don’t know how to actually spend quality, face to face time with each other anymore. If we do manage to get together for a meal or coffee, our phones are going off, we have texts to respond to, we are checking email on our phones and not allowing ourselves a real moment to honestly sit down and talk. We are distracted, absentminded and like I said, self centered. We ask someone how they are doing, nod and smile, accept their ‘great thanks, how are you’ and in our minds, we have already moved on to the next subject or the thing we need to get from them without taking a quick second to look into their eyes and see if “great’ is actually how they are really doing.
The truth is, we need each other. We need relationships, people to lean on, support, love on us and give love to. We would not be able to survive without it. Let’s try to put our phones away, log off of the computer and spend time with actual people. Instead of having your head bent down as you walk texting, try looking up, smiling at someone as you pass by. You never know you may just make someone’s day. Love begets love….something to think about.
Peace Y’all
B
Comments
if every editor wrote like you believe me the world would be a better place! this was an excellent read expecting more!
Posted by: ls4 | January 22, 2010 03:08 PM