Connected

What does it mean to be connected? Is being connected always a good thing or sometimes does it get out of hand. I'll be honest, I feel that sometimes I've been to connected to things and/or people. I know that sometimes I've relied on being connected to get me out of things, or put off what's really important. I have relied on being connected to email, facebook, my phone then actually friendships, relationships and things that really have meaning. It's hard sometimes to find the fine line between life and just a computer screen to justify a friendship or that your connected to someone on a "real" level.

I've been struggling with this lately. Actually wondering how many people I actually consider friends or how man do I consider friends because we text or email....I realize that the ones that I just email and text don't hold a flicker to the friends that I see, connect with, laugh with, cry with, support, stand beside, meet for coffee, listen too, pray for, love, care about...those friendships are what really matter. And I miss it. Don't get me wrong I have amazing, wonderful, loving, supportive friends. What I miss is the old fashion connection that once use to be. I remember it in college. About 12 years ago before Facebook, Cell phones and thinking because you text someone that's a good friendship. I remember what it was like to just call a friend up and go to Wal-Mart to kill time. I do that now sometimes...but people are to busy and we take the easy way out of what it really means to be friends. We think because we have technology to keep us connected that it's enough. I don't believe it is. I miss the way connecting use to be.....before what it meant to be "on line".

I've been humbled lately by watching my daughter. Sometimes to tears actually because of how she is so true and real with her friends. Yes she's 6 and has no clue what cell phone, email, facebook really means. She just hears us talk about it. But what I mean is that Makayla honestly at her age cares for her little friends. That at this age she gets it, my prayer is that she grows up never forgetting what it really means to connect with her friends with out all the gadgets and technology. We are always in a hurry that we hardly take time to just enjoy the ride. Really enjoy it.....I'm guilty of it. Sometimes I drive from point A to point B and don't even remember how I got there because I was on the phone or trying to make sure I didn't forget something.

So all this being said....I am making a goal to reach out to my friends and actually connect with them the way that it was always mean to be. The way that we should be, stop getting so wrapped up in text messaging, email, facebook....all that and spend time with them. We don't know if we'll have tomorrow and why would we want to spend it behind a computer "thinking" that we're really connecting with someone. Face to face, heart to heart, soul to soul is the way to really connect in this life. We get one shot, why not make it count.

So to all my friends that I in my life-thank you, thank you for sticking by me, I promise to make a better effort to be connected on a real level.

Make this day count.