A quick post, one I suspect younger folks won’t “get” or care about and older folks will probably feel the same sad loss I felt when reading this. Before social networking perhaps 7 years ago, a person so desperate they committed suicide often left a note. A handwritten note. Something their hand had touched as they wrote it.
And when the awful news came true, the neighbors and family and friends would pour into their house bearing flowers and hot meals and they would sit, just sit with the family who lost a loved one to despair. They didn’t have to say much. Their presence was the comfort.
The sad Mom up in Newburgh who drove her van into the Hudson, killing herself and three of her four kids, didn’t actually leave a note. She posted it on FaceBook.
So her friends didn’t actually come to the house with flowers and hot food. They left condolences on her wall and went about their lives.
Photos from USA Today
The more technology expands, the less personal human communication becomes. Tell me we are not leaving something preciously human and crucial behind.
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