"Whatever. None of it's working.
I've had a guy leave a voicemail for me at work,
and then I call him back at home,
and he emails me to my Blackberry,
and then I text him to his cell,
and then he emails me to my home account from the plane phone..
--and it just totally gets out of hand.
I miss the days where you had one phone number,
with one answering machine that housed one casette tape,
and either the cassette tape had a message from the guy,
or it didn't. That's it.
Now you have to go around checking all your portals and get rejected by seven different technologies.
It's exhausting!"
This is from the movie He's Just Not That Into You, quoting Mary (Drew Barrymore).. What she's saying is just so funny and dramatically true, isn't it. Technology and all these portals are supposed to help us build relationships at an easier level. But the actual outcome of all of it, is simply complexity.
Yesterday we had a reunion kind of dinner with old friends. One of the topics was that how there was a romantic aspect of writing letters and waiting for a reply for days and weeks. I dare say; patience, longing, curiosity and scarcity of information were the building blocks for long lasting relationships.
I wonder;
what are the building blocks of the modern world's relationships?
what are the building blocks of the modern world's relationships?