Is it true? Our relationships are becoming wide and shallow?

We meet more and more people and make hundreds of new acquaintances every year. But few develop into friendships. Even fewer into deep friendships.

Everyone is so busy with their lives. There are just too few opportunities to relate for much more (or much longer) than a hello. We really need to give relationships a little more time!

Another problem, easy to overlook, is that there are so few good places to carry on a conversation. Few places intimate enough for two people or even two couples to share any depth. Without those kinds of places, how do we make friends or even maintain friendships? I mean where are the quiet places where there are no interruptions or distractions from television, kids, traffic, crowds or music?

I suppose it’s just me, but I long for the day when there were high back wood booths that put a couple of cherry cokes (or better yet a pitcher of beer) between two or four people. And a soda jerk or waitress who respected privacy, but kept the drinks coming. Then we could talk!

I favor the pitcher of beer. What would you expect from someone who named their dog “Barley”?

Comments? email dennis@themilkmarket.com
This is my response to a post by Jonathan Fields, the Career Renegade, “Awake at the Wheel.” I have enjoyed his posts at www.jonathanfields.com/blog/