Being in touch from anywhere, anytime.

Never before have we had such connectivity in our midst. It is wonderful to think that we can be in touch with each others' lives despite differences in time and space. This is how those making their first telephone call must've felt...to hear their loved ones on the other side of the line. For us it is to see and hear those we care about from anywhere at anytime by a simple tap or click! Now there is no excuse for not keeping in touch!
When my parents left Greece, they left saying goodbye to their loved ones with the hope that one day they would return but deep down believing that this was it...they would probably never again see those familiar faces! And they boarded those ships and landed on the other side of the world in a foreign land speaking another language and eating strange foods! How that world has changed!
In less than 50 years, the miracle of air travel and modern communications has opened the doors to the world in the same way the Roman roads (built by tracing the paths trodded on by Alexander the Great and his men) gave access to new worlds around the Mediterranean and, with it, many opportunities for trade and ideas to flourish...except that it took something like 1000 years to foster the connectivity that we share today!
And so now, some 2000 years later, we have all become citizens and neighbours instead of foreigners and strangers. We are the first generation to be the beneficiaries of the heartache spawned by the tyranny of distance...all thanks to that innate desire to keep in touch!