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Our mortality and loss
Social media is an excellent way to keep in touch with friends and loved ones who live all over the globe. We share our stories that mark milestones of importance in our lives. These are moments of time that we feel safe sharing online. When we do that it lets the rest of us know how we are doing.
The connectivity that we feel helps us to know how our friends and family are doing at any given time. There are times that I will think of someone and I might ask my wife “hey have you heard from so and so lately?” Then Katy will reply to me one way or the other. Lots of times I ask her about our adult children. Katy keeps in touch with them through various social media apps.
I appreciate that she does this and it gives me a sense of how they are doing in their worlds. Just recently the daughter of a friend of mine posted a message on his Facebook newsfeed. It was not good news. My friend was in a car accident on Tuesday. He was driving for Lyft and had just dropped off his rider. Apparently, he pulled out into traffic and was hit on the driver's side door. They put him in an air ambulance to go to the hospital but his injuries were too severe and he did not survive. I was not super close to my friend as of late. I had attempted to stay connected with voice mail and email messages but he never replied to my messages. I was kind of bummed out about that but I have not seen him at church recently.
