From Old Time Travel Posters and Luggage Labels by Dover BooksI'm afraid I left everyone here thinking Madge was sitting under a mossy rock in a funk all week. I've been so busy working on projects for the new book I've not had a lot of time for feeling sad, like a spring rainstorm the sad passed and I'm happy once again. I just want to clarify...I do have friends. I have friends whom I adore. They just happen to live far away. I have some local pals, but we're all so busy it's hard to carve out time to just hang out. I feel lonely sometimes, like we all do. It's part of being human to want to connect.
I'd rather have a handful of true friends than a litany of acquaintances. I think we're all lucky if we have one or two people whom we can call true friends. I think it's a symptom of the age in which we live that we can't connect with other people enough. We're all blathering on our Facebook walls and tweeting up a storm and texting endlessly, but somehow that has removed us another degree from one another. It stops us from taking the time to write a letter, pick up the phone or even send an email. The depth and the breadth of our interactions has suffered. I say this often and I shall say it again, we live in a time when we are more connected than we have ever been and yet more disconnected than we have ever been. It's a conundrum to be sure.
I am eternally grateful for you, gentle reader and for my family and friends who I know are all there for me when I need them most and for whom I am there as well. Life is a gift, and I do treasure it.
Love
Madge
3 comments:
LOL! I know what you mean. We are all too busy at women to even take time to be sad and veg on anyting for too long! Glad you are feeling good again! ~Shelley
Life *is* a gift, Margot...
Myself, I've never been a good "friend to many people", I'm a better at being a friend to a few, select folks with whom I connect. There are times I feel lonely as a result. You are right--just picking up the phone or dropping a written note, seems to be less common in the era of Facebook.
My best to you,
Margaret
You are so right. I, too, often comment on the wealth of information available to us in the special time in history in which we live. We have the opportunity to meet and talk to people all over the world via the net, a gift that has never been so readily available before in recorded history. It is amazing and a little mind blowing when you sit down and really think about it.
Yet, at the same time, so many people feel alone and more disconnected that ever before.
For me, I am truly grateful for friends AND acquaintances I've managed to make in my blogging adventure. :)
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