Lonesome no more!

I've been thinking a lot lately about how detached we've all become. Anymore, a person can pretty much live most days without seeing another soul. Think about it. You can get movies in the mail, and food delivered to you. There's text messaging and email. Everything has become so automated and impersonal.

The other day I was reading a story on yahoo news about a woman in Wichita Kansas that got stabbed and was bleeding to death in the middle of a convenience store. Do you know what the other people in the store did? They walked over her and kept on shopping! One person even took a picture of her with their cellphone! What the hell is wrong with society? Have we become so desensitized that we don't even care when someone else is suffering? Or dying right before our very eyes? It used to be that people worked towards the betterment of their community. Now they only work toward whatever is the biggest payoff to themselves.

I went to go pick up a squirrel for nature's nursery from an elderly couple last month, and they talked my ears off. The woman told me that she had just turned 65. She told me about her daughter buying her first house in Kentucky. How she met her husband. About being in the service. I decided to listen and let the lady talk. Because she seemed so desperate for human interaction. Just someone to listen to what she had to say about life, and to share her thoughts with.

No matter how isolated you get, you still need people eventually. Sure, they drive you crazy sometimes, but I think everyone is hardwired to need other individuals that can relate to them in some way and share their ideas.

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

-Kurt Vonnegut