A thought by Leonard Sweet, (2012-03-13) from his
book, Viral: How Social Networking Is Poised to Ignite Revival (p. 19). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
That
is so true.
I am
right now sitting at a Starbucks writing this.
When many people find out that I spend a lot of my time at Starbucks they
will usually say something about the coffee.
And I want to jokingly say, “Oh, do they serve coffee?” I don’t come to Starbucks for the coffee, I come
for the people. It is a place where I can
connect with people. The truth is I have
found that “life is at its best when it involves other people.” Have you found that out yet?
If you
have spent any time on my 2 blogs, you know that I am retired. For 3 ½ years my wife Margaret worked at
home. She would work but it also meant
that we could have lunch together. In other
words, she was accessible to me but now she works in an office. That means she leaves at 7 am and comes home
at 6 pm five days a week. That gives me
a lot of free time.
Now
I have a computer at home and I have 2 TVs and I have a very comfortable chair
right in front of one of those TVs and I’m retired but I have found that “life
is at its best when it involves other people.”
So I take my USA Today and LA Times in the morning and my Kindle and
Dell Computer in the afternoon to Coffee Shops where people are.
I hear
some people say how lonely they are because they are single. They lament the fact that they aren’t married
but I say, that’s no excuse to be lonely.
Find a Starbucks and get to know some people or join a small group at
your church or find a book club at Barnes and Noble or take a class at the
Community College or join the Choir at church or call 2 or 3 friends and make a
weekly appointment to just get together.
Remember I have found that “life is at its best when it involves other
people.”
Another
thing, don’t wait on them to come to you because they probably won’t. They are
waiting on you to take the first step. And
don’t use the excuse that you are shy. If
you really understand that “life is at its best when it involves other people” then
you will do whatever it takes to connect with other people.
By the
way, I don’t own stock in Starbucks. I just
care about you.
So where is your closest Starbucks?
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