Loneliness

We live in such a wonderful world today.

A few days ago I was 668 miles north of here in Illinois. Now I'm in sweet home Alabama where the air is hotter than a frying pan! But the house is cool.

Cool in so many ways! First of all I spent three and a half days with great friends eating wonderful food, drinking exotic drinks and devouring magnificent desserts.  I received my copy of a book I helped with and the inscription was worthy of framing. And the room I am staying in looks like something right out of my dollhouse with a four poster Victorian bed, grandmother clock and even a rose in a crystal vase.

Every room has a television that is voice activated. The doorbell takes a video of whoever comes to the door and rings the bell. I have an app on my phone that makes it possible for me to keep in touch with my friends 24/7, including on a plane in the middle of the Atlantic ocean.

I use apps that showed me the way down here from Illinois, show me how many steps a day I take walking Maddie the Labrador, and allow me to talk to my son in North Carolina as he drives to a play in Asheville and I am texting my friend out over the ocean.

My computer lets me see pictures friends, all over the United States, post minutes afterwards and comment on them.

Loneliness does not have to exist anymore just because you live far apart. If you have friends you can keep in touch. It's not the same kind of relationship, but it definitely can be a close one.