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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cedric" data-source="post: 3127079" data-attributes="member: 2044">I'll keep this brief, my wrist hurts. Technology isn't part of the solution (someone mentioned the ease of contacting someone in the cell phone era), it's part of the problem. When I was a kid...no answering machines, no caller ID, no cell phones...you just answered your phone, period. Then came answering machines, and we started letting the machine get it. That was bad enough, but then came cell phones with voicemail, then caller ID. Now people don't answer the phone sometimes when it's someone they WANT to talk too. They call the person back five minutes later on their terms with a lame excuse like, I had my hands full. (ever catch yourself doing this?).So what does this have to do with the subject?We've grown into a culture where it's become quietly accepted in people's minds to just ignore communication we don't want to respond too. Something comes up, have to back out of the game? Have to quit your job? Have to break up with someone?So many just can't take the responsibility of doing it the "right" way anymore. Someone mentioned a fear of conflict, that's part of it. As a society we propogate it though. Breakups via email, laying off employees via text message. Basically in the end though, some would rather try to act like it never happened than have to deal with the reality of disappointing someone in person. They still know they let someone down, and would be terribly embarrassed if they saw the person they disappointed again. Stammering and hurrying away, or hoping they weren't seen. But that's the gist of it. Raise your children right. Teach them that in the dissolution of anything from a casual acquaintance, to a friendship, relationship or job...the other person deserves and has a right to closure. Has a right to the knowledge that your plans have changed. So much for being brief...my wrist hurts. G'night all. Cedric</blockquote>

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