Blog 3810 – 04.28.2026

The Importance of Connection 

The promise of the Internet, Social Media, Smart Phones was greater connection. We have all seen pictures of friends and family gathered around the dinner table all staring at their cell phones. There is a joke, not so funny, about a couple sitting together texting one another rather than talking or kissing. A favorite comedian has remarked often of late that people don’t have intercourse anymore. He used the four letter word for sexual intercourse. We have forgotten how to talk to one another civilly let alone seductively. The human race has always been one generation from extinction.

More than a few anthropologists, the folks who study human behavior, are concerned that the increasing disconnect among us is contributing to lower birth rates. The birth rate in the many of the industrialized nations has for the first time fallen below the replacement level, two children per couple. A generation ago overpopulation was the fear and now it seems we should fear the opposite to be true.

Intercourse, connection, the urge to merge both sexual and social is what keeps this world spinning. In one of my favorite songs, One More Day, the lover sings about asking for and being given one more day:

“First thing I do is pray for time to crawl

I’d unplug the telephone, turn the TV off

I’d love you every second, say a million I love you(s)

That’s what I’d do with one more day with you.”

Unplugging the telephone is a rather dated reference and few of us even have land lines anymore. A more timely rendering would be “I’d turn off or silence my cell phone.” Wow, now we’re talking and that just might help us to restore a true connection or make a new one.

For some years now some people fearing that we humans may anialate ourselves with nuclear weapons, those pesky pessimistic anthropologists again, have kept adjusting a big clock closer and closer to midnight. It may not be nuclear weapons but a simple loss of connection that does us in.

Maintaining or making real connections is far more important than anything on the Internet, Social Media, the Smartphone or the TV.

Just put the weapon of mass distraction and destruction down for a few minutes and pursue some real conversation and connection face to face.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White

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One More Day