Responding to a question from a friend looking for a touch of familiarity and closeness across the miles and via social media.
A friend mentioned that we are both wired to connect. That's right. In fact, I believe all of us are designed to be in relationship with others - meaningful relationships. Yet how do we establish those? Some of us live in a place or situation that could be described as full of chaos and clamor. Sometimes we feel like we're in a sea of confusion and it feels like we're alone in the midst of a tumult of people. In those places our need for meaningful connections with people who we relate to - whether because of our common interests, experiences or wiring - seems heightened.
Core Connections
At Semper Vita we believe that everyone longs at some level for a life-giving connection with others who relate to us and understand us. We want to be loved and accepted.
Our desire, through Semper Vita, is to provide just those kinds of opportunities where people with similar interests, hobbies and passions can connect and find each other - even in a chaos, clamor and confusion. We want to provide the opportunity for people to pull up a virtual chair online with old and new friends. And, we also want to provide a way for people to find each other so that they can connect real time and in person if they want.
What do you think?
I think you can't replace face time with computers. There's an intangible that comes from actually being with people. That will require something drastic, like unplugging.
Posted by: Rick R | September 17, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Hi Rick,
We couldn't agree more. The ultimate objective is face to face connections. We would love to see people sharing life, swapping stories and volunteering together. To facilitate these real face time opportunities, we hope to provide an easy way to initiate communication through electronic means...with the goal to connect people in community, face to face.
Posted by: Henriet Schapelhouman | September 17, 2008 at 05:28 PM