Let's face it- the more people are physically apart the more a real relationship needs some kind of planning and organization.
You run into the people next door all the time. You can decide to have a drink together or spend time together on a whim.
The same exists with virtual relationships: what a pleasure to meet a friend on messenger and to start a ramdom chat for a few minutes or longer, keeping you from work, but that is what human relationships are about...
Things get complicated when you want to make virtual and real ends meet- For suddenly real life limits become important: the time spent on transport, other obligations, work to do, ...
suddenly relationships become choices in between alternatives: see the close-by friends or travel to see the far-away. Choices can't be made anymore on a whim, encounters at that level aren't subject to accident anymore.
Those small continuous choices become a big choice of life- stay on local level for real life and leave the virtual level in the dreamsphere? or broaden the view and look out for the new in risking to loose spontaneity?
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It's so true, as long as friendships are online, there is always enough time, but when it is about meeting in person, there are reasons galore for not being able to make it.
Other times, when I chat with people and if the conversation is very random limited to salutations, i don't feel connected, it is almost like answering a computer generated question.
And then there is this friend, who was in school with me, I chat with him everyday, it has been over eight years since i last saw him, we talk about everything, but at some level, I do feel like I don't know him, don't remember how he looks like. Though he does send me his photographs regularly, it is just distant friendship, and he was my best friend in school.
Strange are our abilities to connect online.
Please do pursue this stream of thought and elaborate on subjects online in the subsequent posts.
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