How do you feel about relationships today? How fast are they changing or disappearing? I keep having conversations with people who are single and encompass anywhere from 20 to 75 in age and they are all asking the same question? Where do I or how can I meet someone to be friends with, to have and build a relationship with? Well, despite the fact I did relationship studies and my field of interest is in relationships I will give you my take on what I feel has happened. Decades of connection to technology is fast out pacing our relationships to humans, we are connecting with something or someone online but the face to face relationships are deconnecting. In other words if you spend more time online in the virtual world, how are you supposed to maintain a human face to face relationships as well. The bottom line is we are not managing it well at all, We are relying on technology far too much, so we have to learn to disconnect and balance more. That is easily said, but not so easy to do, especially when your living may mean you are with technology all day and not people. There is a fine line here and yet its so easy to pick up the cellphone or i pod, computer and chat with someone. However, nothing can replace being in front of a real human being, someone you can look at, smell them, sense them,, a computer cannot do that… or is that what is next in the virtual world?. Will we be replacing a human with a machine that looks like and acts like a human and how close are we to being replaced on this planet?. We are being programmed to be machines, that is the truth. Painful isn’t it? To realize our use may be null and void in the not so distant future. Stephen Hawking warned us about this and I am not sure how many people took him seriously. However, mark my words, we are loosing our essence, that special human part of us that cannot be replicated. We are loosing touch with reality, we need to balance our lives, balance our interaction with technology, learn to be a real person who breaths and walk in the forest and mountains and in nature more. One who talks to the lost humans who you pass everyday who are lonely and lost in a world where no one seems to care. The pursuit of the almighty dollar, the need to survive in cities where the cost of living has outpaced a large populations ability to survive, especially the seniors and marginalized. We used to have classes of society. We now have 2, the rich and the poor. It is a sad reality. As a senior, I have been forced back to work in order to survive, I thought decades ago I would have a partner to share life’s challenges, but it did not turn out that way. It would be easier for many of us who are single if we at least had someone to lean on, to comfort us, to share with.

Life is not what we thought it would be, its nice to have dreams, but expectations are sometimes unrealistic, and set us up for disappointment. Personally I am just grateful for everyday, and I am filled with love for my connection to the universe and to the collective consciousness that keeps me going. But more and more I am profoundly concerned about where this is all heading….if you feel the same way and need to share, please connect to my feed, talk to me, I am real , I am a human being who cares.

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