Be Here Now

When I was growing up, my brother-in-law would tell me to "be here now" whenever family was over and I was texting my friends.  I would grudgingly put my phone away and pretend to be bored with the family conversation.  I grew to love that time spent with family and I learned many valuable life lessons from those simple conversations.  My brother-in-law might have saved me from a lot of trouble with those three simple words "be here now."  Text conversations can be useful at times but a face to face conversations are always more meaningful and will always build better relationships.  The same holds for all other forms of virtual communication.  Living in such a technological world it is tempting to do all of our communication through virtual channels but if we succumb to this temptation, we will gravely regret it.