Tuesday, August 25, 2015

"What Do We Truly Know About Each Other?" by John S LES



"What Do We Truly Know About Each Other?"

by John S LES


What do we truly know about each other?  From our siblings, long time friends or significant others that we may eventually live with, how much time does most of us spend trying to really get to understand one another?  So few times we get to meet someone, a stranger perhaps, that we interact with and feel that we know them and vice versa, better than people who may have known us far, far longer.  Why is that?  What happens in the daily course of our lives that we end up tuning out the very people closest to us?

Of course there are lucky people who do have close friendships, relationships from the beginning of their lives and over the arch of a long time period.  That is definitely a possibility.  But for most of us, it is not the case.  For the majority of us, we only see and react to the person we see in front of us, or the person that is presented to us in the limited light of our conscious observation of them.  It's impossible to know what they may be like when they aren't around us.  Just because you have seen one side of a person, doesn't mean that you've seen all sides of them.

Remember to make time for one another.  Remember to reach out for one another. That goes for your family, friends and significant other.  Social media and mobile devices may allow us to speak with more people consistently, however, we need to remember to also spend some quality time with the people around us.  We need to not get lost in this maelstrom of technology and social overreach.  We need to try to remember to really get to know one another.