The Common Every-Day Stuff

The latest inanity brought to us by Facebook is that meme of the random 25 things. I have been reading a number of posts about how silly it is - and how snooze-inducing most of them are.

Really? What do we expect? Most of life is, well, life. It is common, every-day, normal, average, and far from the ordinary. Most of the posts, updates and comments on most of our Facebook walls are nothing more than the common chatter of life- background noise that we don't even pay attention to. Until now.

And we discover that for the moment at least we can't live without them.

Personally, I do enough of the inanity of 25 things on my daily posts here on the blog. I probably won't post that on my FB page. But I regularly check and post some of the un-important stuff on my FB page. I have found people I have been disconnected from for years. Some have surprised me with a FB invitation. I have surprised others.

What we discover is that it is in the everyday stuff that life is lived. It is how we do today and tomorrow that makes all the difference. The BIG THINGS don't happen very often. They are the surprises. But through stuff like FB we can discover the relationships and actions that really give our lives meaning.

Other people in relationship with us and others. The further into our technology we get, the more we discover the connections that help us stay grounded.