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Staying connected with loved ones
“Distance means so little when someone means so much.”
- Tom McNeal
One of the greatest outcomes of the information age is it has given us the ability to communicate with our loved ones in real-time, no matter where they are in the world. We can do a video chat with someone on the other side of the globe and catch up with them as if they were sitting in the next room. Through social media we can receive updates from our friends and family on everything and anything going on in their lives. The people closest to us may move away from us physically, but we have the ability to stay connected digitally.
It can be easy to lose touch with our loved ones, particularly those not living under the same roof as us. The flipside of the information age benefits is that we can sometimes experience information overload by the endless stream of updates from the people we are connected with. It can be tough to keep up! Hopefully, in the midst of keeping tabs on our loved ones, we are not forgetting to reach out to those who we hold dearest to our hearts. It happens. The days roll by and the lack of contact accumulates.
Sometimes, the lack of contact can become so lengthy it may feel awkward to reach out. Perhaps they are thinking the same thing. It can feel like a game of chicken to see who will reach out first. “Well, I…
