Ways We Are Connected To Each Other
Jasmine Petersen
Professor Halpin
ENGL 1101
April 2, 2014
Ways We Are Connected To One Another
Your friend tells you a joke and you laughed. Your co-worker offers congratulations to achieving something. Your spouse hugs you hello in the morning. These are all mini-scenarios that humans are connected in some little way. Humans are social animals, we crave feeling valued, supported, and connected. All humans are related to the other in one way or another. There are many ways of how humans are connected to one another. All of us need other people in order to be well and thrive. We are connected to one another based on social networking to communicate through the web. In today’s society, social networking has become like an operating system where every experience can be social and user friendly. For most people, the web is a viable online process that is used every day of the week from the sounding of the alarm clock, until television puts us to sleep. Social networking is capable of transporting information through text, audio, video or graphics across the world and can go virtually in an instant to and from anyone with a device and web access. It’s beneficial sharing personalized and accurate content with friends, family or business associates who rely on the web and value staying connected while developing social relationships. Relationships create psychological space and safety so that we can explore and learn. When we feel safe and supported, we don’t have to build up walls in our hearts to protect ourselves with the knowledge that it will eventually crumble due to human emotion. Brain Doyle says that the heart make us human and allow us to feel, we always try to protect it, though the hearts reaction to anything human will always destroy those protective barriers and leave us vulnerable. The fear of being alone, rejected, and abandon gives us a greater need for connection. A relationship gives us comfort and support from one another that makes us goes on.
Professor Halpin
ENGL 1101
April 2, 2014
Ways We Are Connected To One Another
Your friend tells you a joke and you laughed. Your co-worker offers congratulations to achieving something. Your spouse hugs you hello in the morning. These are all mini-scenarios that humans are connected in some little way. Humans are social animals, we crave feeling valued, supported, and connected. All humans are related to the other in one way or another. There are many ways of how humans are connected to one another. All of us need other people in order to be well and thrive. We are connected to one another based on social networking to communicate through the web. In today’s society, social networking has become like an operating system where every experience can be social and user friendly. For most people, the web is a viable online process that is used every day of the week from the sounding of the alarm clock, until television puts us to sleep. Social networking is capable of transporting information through text, audio, video or graphics across the world and can go virtually in an instant to and from anyone with a device and web access. It’s beneficial sharing personalized and accurate content with friends, family or business associates who rely on the web and value staying connected while developing social relationships. Relationships create psychological space and safety so that we can explore and learn. When we feel safe and supported, we don’t have to build up walls in our hearts to protect ourselves with the knowledge that it will eventually crumble due to human emotion. Brain Doyle says that the heart make us human and allow us to feel, we always try to protect it, though the hearts reaction to anything human will always destroy those protective barriers and leave us vulnerable. The fear of being alone, rejected, and abandon gives us a greater need for connection. A relationship gives us comfort and support from one another that makes us goes on.
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