martedì 20 gennaio 2015

Communication: it has never been harder

I think that we are arrived at that moment when we have so many tools which allow us to communicate, that we don't know how to do it anymore. Mostly I'm talking about content, but I feel like personal interaction is going to be lost, or maybe it has already happened.
I see young people in class exchange messages using their phones, but they don't write little notes anymore, they don't talk anymore and what really worries me, they don't know what to say anymore.
Can it be that all those emoticons are taking away our personal view and expression? Quotes, memes, prepackaged sentences for every and each situation. Sometimes I find myself looking for a well known expression to say something rather than invent it myself or find it inside me. In the middle of a conversation I think: that's a good time to use that quote... or my face should scowl to express doubt. How many times I decided how to interpret a written message based on my emotions? too many. You can say paper had the same problem, but I think is quite different. We have limited space and time to express our thoughts nowadays: 140 characters there, 160 here and so it goes. Be fast, be simple, be synthetic. Well, I'm getting lost. I love the way humans used to communicate a long time ago: voice, long letters, a message in a bottle, some hieroglyphics. If Ogilvy taught us to put a headline first, that doesn't mean he didn't care for content. I wish we had more to say, sincerely, with taste and care. I feel like communication has never been harder than nowadays; I can see your pictures, your favorite food and your habits, but I feel like I know nothing about the real you. I don't know how you express truly, I have no idea what you are hiding behind that emoticons. Who are you friend? I would like to see people eyes smile again, to hear a touched voice and to feel the warmth of a hug. Probably I should be the first taking this advice and try to reconnect with myself, my body and my mind. Do I really know what I want and who I am? Around me the world is spinning too fast and I am getting lost. To use an intelligent quote, I'll start from here:

“Alice came to a fork in the road. 'Which road do I take?' she asked.
'Where do you want to go?' responded the Cheshire Cat.
'I don't know,' Alice answered.
'Then,' said the Cat, 'it doesn't matter.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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