I am often in awe at all the new high tech things we have in our world. As most of you know I dearly LOVE my laptop and the connection and contact I have with the ENTIRE world.
Frank and I sit and watch the news and I am constantly keying up a map of every little thing that happens or a region mentioned. Every new word or idea we encounter, or even something we have heard about most of our life but never practiced before like Advent or Lent. I do a search on everything.
There are no limits to our curiosity and the wonder of just typing in the word in Yahoo or Google search.
But something happened this week that has made me stop and think about what is being lost by this ‘New Era.’ There are of course many things such as: exp. people no longer make physical contact with each other, and of course we will lose important social skills like talking! All the things that go along with human contact like watching a persons eyes, or intuitively knowing if you are hurting someone or they are uncomfortable for some reason. How can you know these things if you are emailing or texting each other all the time and never really getting to know someone.
I think people are sometimes actually living in fantasy worlds, just making believe they are someone else, and can say and act in any way they want because they are never going to see this person and finish the conversation!
Anyway I was going to tell you what happened this week. A local man was killed in an auto accident during last week’s ice storm. I am sure most of you knew him and his family. He was only 53 years old. Dolly told me that at the funeral she heard that in the early 90’s he had started to write letters to his kids. And during the service, excerpts of these letters were read.
I thought how wonderful this is. I don’t know if I have EVER written a letter to any of my kids! Probably hundreds of emails, but I imagine they have been long deleted! I always feel like I don’t want my kids to have boxes and boxes of all my ‘stuff’ to hang onto for years and years that they feel obligated to keep, even when they have no where to put it after 25 years!
But just as with everything, there seems to be two sides to that coin. Of course any child would like to have some reminders of their parents after their passing, even if just for a little while. And I have a feeling that those letters written by this Father to his kids, were more valuable and told those children more about their father than 100 email notes.
And look at the importance we put on old scrapes of parchment found in old archeological digs that has human words on it. There will be nothing left to find 1000 years after our era. CD’s and floppy disks will have disintegrated, and been long destroyed.
I just hope we don’t forget about the value of the written word. We all talk about energy work and healing and forget the value of our own touch and words on a piece of paper. They might someday just light up someone’s life, who knows? Lela
