B"H
Chapter: Being a Needed Friend
The focal point of this literary co mpilation is the smallest dot
that serves to concentrate the inner visual perceptions into a
meditative calm; one must never remove this point fro m his
insight. Even when one articulates a cause of beco ming angered
it can be expressed calmly, a matur e human being maintains his
or her equanimity under all circumstances. Each day my love o f
being alive in Israel weakens; the outlook of so many people is
selfish. I find it difficult to picture in my mind the day when the
secular and religious tribes of Israel will a meliorate their
differences and live peacefully within a singular national unity .
There is a dow n side to the reality being the extent to which our
existence has been reduced to digital quanta, that being that
people have lost many basic skills of human interaction .
This is particularly hard for old people, (because the exact
definition of digital co mmunication is factual, and who that
intellectualizes it feels nothing); especially those who grew up
in a culture that placed imminent significance on their huma n
interactions, like if something bad happened; it made them sad .
The tones of people's voice , gesticulations, or facial expressions
are perceived as human life , when together; words and bod y
language impress their sensations upon our mind. It used to be
that when somebody cared for you he breathed life into your
soul, and that was so important that we were aware and trained
to maintain a whole syste m of ethics and techniques o f
interrelations with one another.
Nowadays, the whole of our social conscience is not bein g
maligned by the power of conformity, scorned by a plurality
consciousness that de mands rote performance of my
functionality, fro m even before the moment of birth until buried
and gone. How should elderly people handle the trauma o f
retaining, into old age, nothing of their former associations
seeing that everything's reduced to digita l alacrity? Many neve r
learned to ignite a computer or type a single word, let alone
thumb a text to an SMS, and most cannot be expected to learn
how to do so. The young generation thinks they're
communicating while the old people hear nary a word.
My being weird, as pertains to identification with religious
precepts of Judaism, a person whose strangeness causes alarm,
and threatens to arise insecurity in those dear but far fro m my
lifestyle; they scorn association in order to protect the mselves
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