A word about connection

Connection is something that dancers know well.  It is how the man and woman keep from crashing into other dancers.  Connection is what keeps a couple moving sharply and together - to the music!  But what is this connection's importance in the non-ballroom floor.  I feel it is important for people to connect both emotionally and physically in many ways.  Have you ever been having a bad day, and someone gives you a hug?  Or you have a really good conversation with someone who knows you and who cares about you?  You will feel better about yourself and your day.  This I feel comes from the personal value of connection. A bond with someone is powerful, and potentially dangerous depending on the situation.  But it's very important that we have those relationships, that we have those ties to someone else.  It helps to keep us moving, motivated, and encouraged about our own lives.  Without a connection to someone, anyone, we truly have no purpose to our lives.  Our actions won't mean anything unless other people take note, and to have someone to support us and talk to us  that knows us is even more important.  We could be Ghandi, but unless we have someone that not only cares about us and looks to us as we look to them - our grand actions will mean very little.  It is the respect and love we have for one another as humans that helps encourage us through out lives.  Think about you life.  Now I leave you with this question, to encourage you to be friends to someone, to have you care about them whatever and whoever they are.  Remember that it doesn't matter who they are or what they do.   As long as you believe them to be a good person inside, you can be there friend.  Being their friend doesn't mean that you hang out with them for everything that you or they do - sometimes that's not what your friendship needs to be about.  But certainly, talk to them get to know them, and be there friend and support them.  Hopefully you choose your friends such that they support you too.  But think of this - if you were the only person in the world, as the biblical story of Adam depicts.  Would you want to live without any other person around?  For example, if you just woke up and everyone was gone.  Would you try to search for someone out there?  Or would you give up and off yourself?  Or maybe - you'd make do with what was left in hope of them returning.  Whatever the answer to these questions, remember that tomorrow you may be gone - or those you love might be gone.  So keep that in mind when you turn someone down to play a video game or something else that probably doesn't need to be done.  Pay attention to those around you.  Don't let them become invisible.  And remember that sometimes you have to take some effort to get somewhere in life, whether for a job or to establish a link with someone that you feel a connection too.