Some friends and I were talking about progress the other day and one of them said she isn’t sure all this technology is a good thing.\u00a0 She’s not a very tech savvy person\u00a0because she doesn’t want to be. She thinks it might present more problems than it helps. It’s true when you think of all the problems that have come along with the progress, it can be intimidating.\u00a0 But where would we be without it?\u00a0 Cell phones attach to my hearing aids with bluetooth.<\/p>\n
The hearing aids have computer chips in them that are more powerful than the old Pentium computers. We can do our banking online, manage our houses online, work at home via network, even find medical advice online.\u00a0 And where else could we get such quick answers?\u00a0 Even if libraries had the information, they’re not open 24\/7.\u00a0 There’s so much we can do that I can’t begin to list it all but if you’re reading this, you probably know anyway.<\/p>\n
Do the downsides my friend pointed out negate all the good stuff? Is she right that “Internet (Facebook\/Twitter) friends are not “real” friends?\u00a0 I don’t think so. I think any facet of life has its risks, abusers, problems, and complications.\u00a0 Good things happen and bad things happen no matter where\u00a0we are or what\u00a0we do.\u00a0 Life happens and we have to live it, enjoy the good, use whatever tools we have available to help us muddle through, and not dwell on all the negative.<\/p>\n
I’ve been\u00a0facing a lot of challenges this year.\u00a0 My cataract surgery had\u00a0some uncommon\u00a0complications and I lost a lot of my vision, which without working ears, is to say the least, difficult.\u00a0 Without\u00a0 the technology of laser surgery (which I just had\u00a0last week)\u00a0there wouldn’t be a chance to help me get some vision back.\u00a0 Darling Hubby’s knee surgery?\u00a0 Arthroscopic Surgery – again technology.<\/p>\n
I don’t know how I’d have gotten through all the hard\u00a0things that have happened\u00a0the past\u00a0year without technology, friends and family. And that includes the friends I’ve made online.\u00a0 Some I’ve reconnected with years later, some are\u00a0friends I see regularly, some are friends I met after getting to know them online (through other friends I really know – no strangers!!!) and some of them I’ve never met.<\/p>\n
Are the people I only type to, who were concerned about me and sending me their love and support and good wishes any less real than the people I knew\u00a0from long ago?\u00a0 Aren’t they real people with beating hearts typing\u00a0their real\u00a0feelings?\u00a0 I think so.\u00a0 And that makes them real friends because real friends are the ones who care, who are there when you’re not very entertaining, when you need someone to listen. And I am so grateful to have so many caring people in my life.<\/p>\n
The friends I see on a regular basis – what others would call the “real” friends\u00a0have been angels in my life. Some of my closest friends have become family – the sisters I never had.\u00a0 There are no words to express how wonderful my family\u00a0is and has been.\u00a0 My children, who are the light of my life, and my husband, the most unselfish,\u00a0loving person I’ve ever met in my life –\u00a0my heart and soul.\u00a0 When you have people like these in your life, it’s hard to feel sorry for yourself when life gets rough.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And when you can find more caring friends through technology, how can it be bad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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