Keep in Touch

Catching up with friends and family is rewarding. Period. This week has been particularly rewarding in that sense. Though I can't deny that each week, for some time, has been that way. For the longest time I underestimated the power of telecommunication - probably because I never bothered keeping in touch with anyone. But now that I'm back in the game, I can't thank technology enough. In person communication rates higher, no matter what. But phone, chat, email come in close behind, in that order.

The best thing about talking to others is that it makes me realize how much I have grown over time. Sitting in solitude and catching up with self is one thing, a very important thing. However, when mixed with sharing and listening to other peoples stories, suddenly the entire process becomes wonderous.

Love life. Love the people in it.

Can mobs be civil?

I've always loathed it when [some] people argue it is the woman's fault if she gets sexually asaulted or raped because she invited it by being there, or being beautiful, or suggesting advances. But, I'm not sure how I feel about this one: 

Female Foreign Correspondents' Code Of Silence, Finally Broken http://huff.to/dN7OVx

What do you think? 

For one thing, I KNOW mob-mentality is the lowest, scariest, most hideous the public can get. There's a level of invisibility. Law is not in place. Chaos helps overshadow everything immoral, unethical, illegal. So how can one expect (in our not-so ideal world) for people to act with civility, when the only thing that FORCES us to act in line is the fear of getting caught, the fear of loosing dignity.