Is one of my favorite songs, then the « A THOUGHT FOR TODAY » was the following.
Our lives are like islands in the
sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each
other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the
darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's
bottom. -William James, psychologist and philosopher (11 Jan 1842-1910)
How
beautiful.
This so
succinctly explains the connections that we have among human beings as well,
some links not being immediately seen, others more evident, but all just as
valuable.
The ability
to reach out and touch someone by word, look or gesture ; from the often
seemingly trite and unimportant communications to the recognizably profound, we
are linked.
Perhaps this
is the greatest strength of social media – it allows us to re-connect with
persons from our past – it re-inforces those ties with people living far away –
it allows us to « meet » new people, « hear » new ideas and
in general be « connected ».
Now this
doesn’t mean that I intend to spend hours, or even minutes per day on my
computer checking FaceBook and others (in fact some I have chosen to not pursue
at all – one also needs to reserve most of one’s time for those who are
physically present in our lives), however knowing that I can look and see what a
high school friend is up to, to realize that on a next trip I might well plan
on dropping in on another long-lost friend allows me
to know that
I am not alone ; to also know that I can be of use to someone else in my
life.
We are not
islands – we are linked – a very comforting thought in the world’s business and
seeming anonymity.
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