EDIT: Virus=Isolation=OPPORTUNITY
This virus is offering us - all of us - an opportunity to extend ourselves to one another in ways that we never dreamed of.
Stan Drains Another Vein, Virus Edition
I spoke to my friend Stan yesterday. He doesn’t mind that I use his name.
“Years ago, when my wife and were first having trouble, she started watching TV at night to help her sleep. I found out later that the TV helped her thoughts move away from the disappointment and hurt she felt, and helped throw noise in her head to quiet her anxiety."
"This was her new connection. She told me later that it was a poor substitute for conversation and for the love that she felt she lost within our emotional distance. I thought about that today.
It made me so sad, so empty.”
“Today, I looked around, I felt this same emptiness, seeing no one, just staring out the window to a vacant street. So I thought I'd tell you how I put these two together.”
Years ago, when he and his wife and first having trouble, she started watching TV at night to help her sleep. He found out later that the TV helped her thoughts move away from the disappointment and hurt she felt, and helped throw noise in her head to quiet her anxiety.
"This was her new connection. She told me later that it was a poor substitute for conversation and for the love that she felt she lost within our emotional distance. I thought about that today. It made me so sad, so empty.” - Stan
Stan told me that today he looked around, and felt this same emptiness, seeing no one, just staring out the window to a vacant street. So he thought he’d tell how how he put these two together.”
“The connections we make in the course of life-maybe that’s what heaven is…”-Fred Rogers
This virus separates our hearts from one another
When we’re this far apart, the easiest thing for us to do is to withdraw into ourselves, to turn on the TV, to keep from being injured or disappointed from the insufficient, half assed contact from our friends and family.
Thing is, they're numbing themselves, too. TV, video games, and food up the butt.
We have to get better at reaching out.
Just get on the phone, man. Just pick that sucker up and push seven or ten buttons. How hard can this be? Rediscover the art of conversation, you know? How many times in the last year have you stayed on the phone longer than five minutes? I can't speak for women…but guys? Never. And that's the problem.
Speak to one another and let the other person talk. Listen, listen, listen.
“This virus stuff is offering all of us-ALL OF US-an opportunity to extend ourselves to one another in ways that have not presented itself before. I mean, what the hell is FaceTime? Skype? Zoom?
This is my rewrite of the above paragraph (you passed up an opportunity to add a list to your post):
This virus stuff is offering all of us - all of us - an opportunity to extend ourselves to one another in ways that have not presented itself before.
I mean, what the hell is:
FaceTime?
Skype?
Zoom?
This is our face-to-face right now.
“Have somebody show you how use the freakin things! Just tell your readers to turn off the TV, turn on the computer, and figure out the next level of contact. Yeah, it's through the screen, but it beats the hell out of watching TV.”
“ And call. Call, OK? Text, too?
Have somebody show you how use the freakin things! Just tell your readers to turn off the TV, turn on the computer, and figure out the next level of contact. Yeah, it's through the screen, but it beats the hell out of watching TV.”
And call. Call, OK? Text, too?
A NOTE FROM MY HEART
This thing is getting better.
But our humanness will be the only thing that really heals us
Reach out to one another.
I gotta Skype now.
This is by rewrite of the above:
This virus thing is getting better.
But our humanness will be the only thing that really heals us.
“The connections we make in the course of life - maybe that’s what heaven is . . . ” - Fred Rogers
Reach out to one another.
Sorry, I gotta go Skype now.
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The above button should be small and linked to the Home page (if you don’t remember how to do this, let me know and I will be happy to show you):
Suggested photos (the first photo above is of a person using their computer, the one below is just a woman sitting in front of a tv, the second photo is nice, but the two subjects are not distancing themselves, the photo below is just one person using the computer):
