Transcending (Collage)

Social networking can create as many avenues for connection as avenues and connections to be desired. You can become instant friends with someone else who also happened to watch the Dancing Kittens video on youtube, while never maintaing contact with family members that you now can access via email, SKYPE, text, video chat and more. Does this signal that relations that we used to value are unnecessry, or lost? Or does this mean that maybe we are developing a new sense of family and friends, the ones that we really want to contact at a moment's notice? What does that say about all of out interactions in the past? Were they forced because all we had was face to face communication as kids, or were they really true?

Things that I think about in the morning as I send my cousin an IM to congratulate him on something. I never once call him, nor have I even thought to grab his number. Yet, I will drop him a note via email to keep up.

Events like these have really made me question whether what has been in the past is even necessary to maintain or revisit.

Do you need to leave the past behind to leave a legacy? Or are the two intertwined?

Some people will say that things and persons come into your life for a reason, for a season, and that is just the way the life is. Some people say that you can count your true friends on your fingers. So that means that roughly about 10 people in your life are truly worth note, and the rest are just passing incidences that amuse or teach us a lesson. I am not sure that any of these are true, but one things is certain. I think the most impactful thing is treating each moment like it has some value without being lost in assessing that value in the moment. If I am having a conversation with someone, I don't need to really be thinking about if our exchange is blog-worthy, or should I take out a pen and paper and jot down the highlights. However , if something profound happens in that moment, I should remember it and not feel bad about wanting to take this piece of my soon to be past and make it part of my present considerations.

Thus, I feel that the past and the present are allowed to meld together. It is not of note how you connect with people, but that you do. Be grateful if you have the oppotunity to connect with various people - think of the world of connections, possible friends, lovers, soulmates, and support that you could create for yourself or be part of, for someone else.