I think there is less effort at meaningful relationship than there used to be.

The phone replaced face to face social communication. the text and Facebook and Instagram replaced the phone.

We have never been so electronically connected...and never more alone.

Rarely do I have meaningful conversations with family members unless we are going for a walk, which is when we have the best talks. Also at meals. These unplugged opportunities afford deeper, more emotionally connected conversation and relationship

The family dinner has been replaced by watching TV while grazing.

I think that we have to really emphasize and prioritize relationship and meaningful communication with people in our lives, and worry less about other things.

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One of today’s problem is that people don’t “talk”. They text. There isn’t the personal one on one interaction there used to be.
I hung out with a family 35 years ago. Spent a lot of time with their youngest son. I lost track of him. Found an article about him on line last year.....he had started his own company, had a multi million dollar home. A total success story.
He murdered his wife, his teenage son and two teenage daughters, then killed himself. No one saw it coming.
Just so sad.

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Well, shit.
This morning I had a long time friend overdose. I never ever EVER would have expected it from her. She and her husband sold their business. I don't have any of the facts yet but I am positive she/they took some of the money and had a big party.

Another man who was close to my secretary committed suicide yesterday. His kids found him.

We had a drive by shooting in a nearby town a couple of days ago. The son of another friend was hit and is hospitalized.

Turns out the young man at the beginning of this thread was into drugs too.

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Geez, Wayne. You are getting it from all sides.
I think all the negatives into today’s world is affecting more people then we even know.
You can’t escape all the negative “news”. It’s on the TV, your phone, your computer.
And drugs are everywhere.
This world is messed up.
And all you hear is “doom and gloom”.
How do they expect people to react?

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