We had a nice dinner with our older son last night talking baseball. Then my husband turned on the news and there was the Boston shootout and more on the fertilizer plant in Texas. It's a hard slog to be upbeat these days. And the Boston horror seems to have been boys really, a teenager and a brother recently out of his teens. Is it video games? Is it what they experienced in Russia? No one will ever really know. What we know is a level of detachment that is terrifying. And our culture is more and more a game, a series of chess moves with people not even in the room.
I will try to make this day not about their world view but mine. People need human interaction and guidance. They cannot function as independent units. Texting is not satisfying. Facebook is not friendship, not when it can cause young people to kill themselves. Stop buying the branding and buzz words and facade. Go deep. Stick around for mistakes and getting your feelings hurt and the pain of interacting. Because the alternative is zombiedom for real.
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