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Conversing and listening in the 21st Century!
Michele Roohani
“Life is short, art is long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.”
The lost art of Conversation in the 21st century
Sadly many new technologies have contributed to increasing our isolation (TV, iPods, etc.) but it doesn’t have to be that way.
As children, we start the conversation by playing together, as young adults our conversations become intense but something strange happens in midlife: all those ideals sediment in our heads and we get comfortable in our somehow more quiet and prosaic lives – we sink gradually to the bottom of our minds.
Unfortunately for many of us, by the time we get to old age, the conversation has died down completely or has diminished to a competition about who’s more sick and who’s children are more ungrateful – Man dies in solitude and silence…
Read on—http://micheleroohani.com/blog/2008/03/30/the-lost-art-of-conversation-in-the-21st-century/
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Michael Conniff
“Blogs are whatever we make them. Defining ‘Blog’ is a fool’s errand.”
Just from one fool to another!
Now The Mysterious Blabberer? 
You sure are a blogging fool…LOL
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This is so true, Dad! Technology affects us in so many ways. While it makes it possible for us to connect with people around the globe, it isolates us from the people standing right in front of us.
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Right on as always.
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This is the stark reality.
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Maybe when I get old I’ll get myself one of them fancy computerheads.
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Ouch!
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This will only hurt for a second!
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Hello, Hal! I’m reading your blog! 😉
But, seriously… I think spending and enjoying time with loved ones *without* constantly checking the phone/social media/etc. is more important than ever. 🙂
We might depend on technology, especially in the midst of a pandemic, but being together, just talking, can never be replaced by anything. Imho. 😇
VVN
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IMBO? Really?
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