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Amen! Sometimes I feel like an antennae for emotions - I can pick them up easily. Like a tuning fork resonating with other tuning forks, I guess.

He talks about this idea in Social intelligence as well and goes further into relationships. I really like the beginning because he touches on something that I've really been thinking about and that is how disconnected we all are. Even as we pass each other on the street - we don't connect. There is a lack of human contact. (And here I am communicating through a PC...)

I think our separateness is becoming fatal. It is not good for society. We are meant to be social creatures - but we are less and less social and more and more isolated.

I'm not saying electronic communication is altogether bad - it's a great tool and helps connect us when we are apart. However, I do not believe it is good for that to be the main mode of connection - it's just not full enough. Have you noticed at work how people will email someone just a few seats away instead of calling or better yet just going over there?

Ok, ok - soap box for Winter Rose.