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Introspect // Communicating With Less Intimacy
( October 10, 2008 )
( October 10, 2008 )
The way we communicate is getting more and more impersonal. Instead of a phone call we exchange text messages on our cellphones.
We have so many communication tools available to us and we often choose to abuse of the more impersonal ones. Some people even steer away from email and only communicate on MSN!
That’s just silly.
Yes, those less personal services have a purpose, but they don’t replace the former. Every tool has it’s place and due function.
This makes me wonder about the way we interact with everyone now-a-days.
How many of us barely look at those who are serving us at a restaurant or cafe? Without the intention of flirting, that is. Usually we barely acknowledge them. How rarely do we make a connection? Even if it’s just a brief one, it only benefits both parties.
And how open are we really to new people entering our lives, specially after our teenage years?
And why do we obsess over so called celebrities and public figures?
Do we feel so disconnected that we need to invade on other’s privacy to compensate for our own lack of intimacy and involvement?
Do we feel so disconnected that we need to expose our own privacy to whomever is willing to see, to compensate for our own lack of involvement?
Why do we love to peek at stranger’s lives? Why do some of us get addicted to following somebody else’s life events though magazines and TV? Simple curiosity can turn into sordid gossip addition.
People become unfocused of their own lives and those around them.
It completely blows my mind away, when I hear people talk about the personal lives of public figures. They talk as if they were talking about family relatives. It bothers me deeply. They don’t know these people, they don’t know their circumstances! What the media says isn’t the absolute truth nor does it know all the facts. Actually the media isn’t about the facts, is simply about sensationalism!
And yet million of people are addicted to this dynamic while become more and more distant from their surroundings.
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