Eternal Connection...

It's crazy nowadays when I think about how easily we are all connected. It wasn't that long ago when you had to drop 25 or 35 cents in a payphone to call for a ride from home! Now, kids these days can just whip out their cellphones and dial home from wherever they are. It wasn't really that long ago that you had to use a good ol fashion pen and paper, seal it up, stick a stamp on it and send a letter to "speak" with someone far away. I say "speak" because it's a bit hard to have a conversation when it may take days or weeks to get a response. Funny, I can e-mail my friend in Japan (on the other side of the globe), and receive a response in minutes! People used to lose touch after a certain point... elementary school, high school, college... but that is a thing of the past. With things like facebook and myspace, we can all stay connected with those people who we always wanted to. easily. Remember that kid in your gym class who you were buddies with in 3rd grade? Type his name in facebook and you'll probably find him, 15 or 20 years older, but it's still him. If not, head over to myspace, most people are on at least 1 of those, if not both.

It wasn't that long ago when we had to go to the library to find information... library? what's that? I just go to google, or wikipedia. Everything just a few keystrokes away. It's amazing when you really stop and think about it, but then again no one really does. We take for granted that instead of having to call all of our friends on the house phone to set up plans on friday night, we can just send out a gmail, or facebook message to all of them at once, maybe even use AIM if enough of your friends are on. we don't have to wonder where to meet or why they're late, just hit up their cell phone. don't worry about them getting lost, they've got gps! don't wonder about where you're gonna eat, one of your friends can just google from their phone.

In fact you don't even have to ask me what I'm thinking... you just read it right here...

Now, don't get me wrong, maybe the tone of this essay(oh no! is that what this is?) isn't really being conveyed. I'm not annoyed or fed up with technology or society, I'm a big fan of the direction that we're headed in. I mean damn, I'm "friends" with Barack Obama on facebook. If I would have told you, not even 10 years ago, that I would have any connection to a presidential candidate, especially a direct link to him, you'd look at me a little funny. What's even funnier is that I'm his "friend" and I don't even know him! If you don't think thats some crazy ish, I don't know what to tell you. But anyway, off my random tangent... It's just that I finally took a step back and looked at what we have (technology is what I'm talking about, in case my little side spiel confused you) with awe and amazement. It is truly something that we take for granted these days, and no doubt we will still do so in the future.

But... I digress. I'm not really telling you that you have to be all amazed and overjoyed and whatnot. I'm just sharing my simple thoughts on the eternal connection that we all share.

~Swagger J.