For someone who grew up in the pre calculator days of high school with logarithm tables in Trigonometry class, to visit today's schools where some students are issued laptops and passes to carry cell phones, it illustrates how you must
Embrace Change To Fit In.
It doesn't matter if you were the school slide rule champion. Today is the day of Podcasts, USB memory sticks, and Twitter. We must adjust to the times, to best communicate with all those using the latest tools. Particularly the upcoming generations.
I had read that the 20 something generation was very much texting over other forms of communication. It seems like land line voice mail is almost dead. Not many listen to it. The hard copy newspaper? A struggling industry. Twitter and Facebook, the advent of something new with having your own web space and mini blogs.
Change is not to be feared. You just have to figure out especially with technology, what parts of it work for you and let the rest go by the wayside. Even with Twitter and Facebook you don't have to be "online" with them beyond a certain amount of time that is meaningful to you. All I can say from the extremely techy friends I hang around with, is hang on to your hat. Wait till you see the 4G cellular wireless speeds. Video is coming to a cell phone near you.
Hopefully we will still slow down and take walks in the park and throw a frisbee with the dog. And pick up our children and hug them. Some of the best things in life are free. Embrace change for what it is. Something different. Perhaps a better way to connect and help people in the world. Take note from the teenagers. They are working with it quite well. Old methods are not necessarily worse. Sometimes the new just can help you touch more people than before and share with them what you learned and maybe meet someone across the country in Sacramento or Idaho that you never would have met before, who for just a brief moment gives you that smile you need so very bad today. And you give them one too.
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