First, I think that we are all spending a lot more time "detached" from the people who are supposed to be part of our "meaningful relationships". I don't think that's a "normal" state. I mean, what ever happened to tribalism? You know... sitting around shelling beans while chatting, playing little games, and just enjoying being in the company of others. Or of planting crops or tending livestock... working alongside another person who was probably your husband, or wife, or parent, or child... Someone who means something to you and that you enjoy being with.
Funny, I had been daydreaming about something like this. Early memories, my extended family spending evenings playing cards, having dinner, talking. Me, very young, watching, listening. Before the tyranny of television, I suppose, in the early '50s. My maternal grandparents lived two doors down, my aunt and uncle across the street. All those people gone, now. And the fabric of that society gone forever, I suppose. |
