Deeper Connections
How reconnecting changes everything!
When babies fail to thrive its often because they haven’t been touched, spoken to, or noticed. In a time when cell phones connect and disconnect us, social media has replaced person to person interaction, mothers are looking less at their infants, a date can look like two people sitting across from one another peering into their phones rather than into each other’s eyes, it’s understandable how lonely and disconnected many folks feel.
No matter how old you are, from elders to youngsters, there is a hunger, a noticeable craving for connecting with people. Deeper Connections. Person to person, heart to heart, feeling another person’s charisma or energy or admiration or angst: This is all part of connecting with people. Funny how the social media platform, LinkedIn, that’s all about connection, right? Relatedness, right? Yet, even though it links us within business platforms, does it link us, does it help us to relate to one another, does it help us relate outside of business? The answer is yes and no. You get a response, yet is it real or is it more robotic? One thing the link does is feed our egos, especially if we have lots of connections with people on LinkedIn.
Facebook was supposed to connect, and it did, to some extent, re-establish friendships, the long lost high school friend, or the college…
