This quote is the opening line in the book “Written on the Body” by Jeanette Winterson. I have loved, cherished and held every word in that book since the first time I discovered it. But tonight that quote took on new meaning.
I had a full day today. Exciting day. New opportunities, calls scheduled, interesting people, places to be … and during those commitments I was making and completing I was constantly bombarded by instant message, skype, email, text, cell, phone and even the door bell - that I had one very important phone call that I missed … my mother in hospital after having a suspected heart attack. In that moment I felt my own heart may just have stopped.
All of my busy life and all of my well planned strategic bullshit fell to the floor like a meaningless pile of rubble.
I was just today sprouting how I don’t like to use my phone because people have the audacity to expect you to answer it when they want to talk to you.
If communication has become so full of SPAM that we can no longer receive the messages that we want to receive then that means of delivering communication becomes useless.
Chris Brogan Makes some really interesting points in his post The Hand Carried Letter I read it just this morning and I had no idea how real that it would be for me today.
Technology is a blessing and a curse. How can technology help us get closer to the people and things that we hold dearest to us? How can we make that easy so that we can share that across the generations?
And so back to the “measure of love” … I called my mother and just blurted out “I love you” just as though I thought I may never get the chance again. I will. She has an appointment with the brilliant heart specialists at St Vincents in a week. All of a sudden my mobile phone has first priority.
To those who have become my family on Twitter. Thank you so much for your love and support.
Photo Credit: “D Sharon Pruitt”
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