A world of TXT'g, what has happened to communication (dedicated to Ron)

Last week I needed someone! I had a very bad few days and I have this special person that wanted to talk to me. I now realize after he told me to blog about txt'g that something is missing when we txt our challenges and overall communication or even when we use email. I think he wanted to first feel my pain! Sometimes people feel (and I am one of these) that if you hear it feel it you can take ownership of it.

However I come from a very old school family and emotional as I am, my father’s last words to me before I ever saw him again was "stop crying or I’ll smack you"! I was crying because I missed him and I had not seen him for 4 years. Besides saying the man was an asshole! He was more ignorant than anything else. I think if he were alive today things would be different! But that's for another blog on another time.

I am a vivid email and txt person! Email because I like to keep record of what I say do etc. Especially when juggling many things. But my friend is right, you can try, but never truly express your emotion at the time you wrote the email or txt the message.

When I was little in Madeira Portugal, we used to get a monthly telephone call from America. I remember waiting for those calls. There was one phone for the whole village/town. Then we came to America and every house had a phone to phones in the bathroom (I actually one time had a phone in every room including the bathrooms). Then we had email and man what would we do without it. This was followed very soon by the beeper, cell phone and now the world of txt'g.

It has become a world where we no longer feel the pain, understand each other because we don’t properly communicate. We have developed wonderful tools but nothing replaces the voice saying I love you, the hug when you can feel the heartbeat as your embraced and the handshake that tells you so much about an individual along with their eyes that you can read books if truly analyzed.

It was often said of me you could read what I was thinking by looking at my eyes and face! My friend your right! Next time you call even in desperate of hours, you will hear my pain, sadness sorrow, happiness or enlightenment because you mean more to me than an email or a txt!