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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Reach out...

Reach out and touch someone....


 From 1979 through 1983, for those of us who remember those days,
the phrase "reach out and touch someone" was an ad slogan for the 
Bell System (aka AT&T).  It was based on the premise of the natural 
human desire to communicate with others.  These days we don't 
need a round dial we stick our finger in and crank, or a wall mounted,
short curly corded phone to communicate.  We have so many 
avenues, text, email, FaceBook, to name a few.  Communications are
at lightening speeds.  However, I wonder if we are actually really 
communicating and if so then WHAT are we actually communicating? 
Authenticity seems lost.  Looking into anothers eyes seems almost 
foreign and a bit intimidating.    I ran into a friend who has a very 
strong "social media" presence, and asked him what he has been up 
to of late.  His reply was "you obviously haven't been reading my 
posts, or blogs, or you would know what I've been up to".  He said 
this with all sincerity. Hmmmmm.....

FB and texts and blogs are all a great way of spreading the word-- 
but my soul, my real communication center, has been feeling a bit 
slighted lately.  It is having a hard time really "connecting" with others.
  Sure, I blog, FB, text, email and tweet, but I long for the slow, face
-to --face, look in your eyes, old fashioned way of knowing what is 
going on... really going on with one another.  Even in yoga classes we 
stagger our mats so we don't have to touch each other.  When I see
someone, and even more strongly, when I touch someone, my soul 
knows so much more about them than I could ever read in 130 
characters or less.  The art of touch I fear is being lost in our society.
 What with lawsuits and hyper-technology it is no wonder.  Am I a 
neo-luditte?  Possibly, but I encourage you to be brave, dial into 
someone's true communication center.  Reach out, really reach out 
-- be it their arm, their shoulder, their hand or their soul -- 
and touch someone!

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