Not Quite As Good

Dear Friends,

I stumbled across this tree while I was talking to my siblings the other day.  I had to stop what I was doing, and totally lost my train of thought to get a picture of said tree…I did not get back to what I was saying to my siblings after that.

I use an app called Marco Polo to chat with my siblings, with my bonus mom and bonus sister, and with a couple of friends on the regular.  It’s basically this video message app where no one is in real time, we’re all talking and listening when we, individually, have the opportunity to listen and talk.  We can have individual chats, or chats with groups of people.

If we’re being honest, it’s not as nice as a phone call.  It’s hard to have a real time connection when you’re basically talking to yourself, and there’s no real time reaction from the folks I’m talking to, because I’m not talking in real time to them, as they are not there with me…there is by definition less opportunity for real connection.

And yet, through this app I have found greater opportunities for connection in general…stay with me here…because I know I basically contradicted myself.  Life gets so busy, and it’s hard to stay connected to the people we value and want to stay connected to...add in some different time zones, and wildly different schedules and that connection becomes near impossible.  This app has allowed people important to me to maintain that day to day connection, to maintain that conversation in each other’s lives across time zones, states, the whole country…and that is a joy in my life, even if it might not be the best platform for real connection.

Sometimes the opportunity for real connection is abundant in our lives, and other times we take the morsels we can get, because staying connected to the people we love is important in this life we’re living, and connection, no matter how mediocre, is absolutely essential.

I hope you have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista