Theory #13 - Theory of the Big House

With the technological era that we're living in, it's only adequate i write a technologically influenced theory.

Theory of the Big House

Long LONG ago.. when a friend moved away, we're all in tears and crying cause we're gonna miss that person so much and we're not gonna hear from them.. oh the pain, oh the pain.

granted there are still a lot of tearful goodbyes at the airport, the amount has reduced significantly simply because of our lifestyle now. the world has become tiny. We have e-mails, msn chat, phone calls from each other's mobiles, sms'ing and video and audio calls online.

Now i actually think that this is great, that we're all staying connected, but i think it's having another unanticipated side to it as well.
How many times have you gone online or called a friend and actually had a nice looong conversation, catching up and all?
it doesn't really happen anymore. yeah from time to time you write to someone about what's going on in your life. but it's always a random message on msn, a text message, a short phone call.. something of that sort.

It's kinda like, we're all living in this big house together.. a.k.a. THE WORLD. when you're living with someone in the same house you don't greet them EVERY time with a big hello and a hug and start catching up on everything.. you say hi maybe, sometime you don't.. you say what's up, what's new... but very casually.

everyone's just emotionally "away" like our status online. we're THERE.. we're just not really there. sure we're connected, but because it's so casual and easy now we don't really make a big deal anymore when we do talk to each other.

we hardly ever have long or meaningful conversations with people anymore. or rather we dont' appreciate each other's company AS MUCH anymore i think.. when it comes to long distance. we can feel each other around.. i just have to look at msn and see the list of people that are "away" and i feel like they're my roommates all in their respective rooms. .. but am i gonna go EACH time and say "hi! i miss you! long time!" to each person? no.. not really..
kinda like when you live with people.. they're there when you need them.. but no need to make an event out of everytime you talk to them.

this wasn't possible before when people were out of town, but that's what it's come to.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, all of us living under one roof.. but don't you miss every once in a while those conversations of catching up?
you dont' really get much of a chance to miss someone, cause the minute you do you can call them on their mobile phone to see how they are, or just sms them telling them about something funny you saw that day. which was not possible before.

I just think we need to be careful when living in this big house, I think soon we'll be walking around with shirts that say "away" cause we're so used to interacting with people in that manner. where everyone's available when i need them, it's no trouble really FINDING them.

Just try to remember to spend some time with your roommates from time to time.